The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has acquired the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer for $2.5 million.
Norman Mailer, 82, photographed in Austin where he announced the sale of his archives to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for $2.5 million, said his choice of The University of Texas at Austin drew in part on attachments from his wartime experiences.-Photo by Travis Willman
The archive contains materials associated with every one of Mailer’s literary projects, whether completed or not, from the mid-1930s to the present, as well as a substantial number of first editions and foreign editions of Mailer’s books, books used for research and some books given to Mailer by other authors.