Series II: Series II: Robert F. Lucid Papers , 1981 - 1998
Series
Identifier: 50.05.004
Dates
- 1981 - 1998
Extent
From the Series: 10 Cubic Feet
From the Series: 21.2 Linear Feet (35 document boxes, 1 legal box, 2 oversized unframed photographs, 1 oversized framed photograph in the Norman Mailer study, and 1 framed photograph located in the Norman Mailer Room. )
Language of Materials
From the Series: English
General
The Robert F. Lucid Papers, 1981-1998 series contains multiple drafts of Robert F. Lucid’s unfinished biography of Mailer. According to J. Michael Lennon, Lucid began work on this biography in 1981, but made little progress until he retired to Shavertown, PA in 1997 (he rented the Lennon home; the Lennons moved to university housing. Lucid lived in the Lennon home from the beginning of 1997 until the end of 1998, when he turned to Philadelphia and the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and all but abandoned the biography. At that point, he had written 180,000 words and taken Mailer from birth in 1923 to 1951. When Lennon, who was Lucid’s understudy, took over the project after Lucid’s death in December 2006, he decided to begin his biography from the beginning of Mailer’s life rather than continue Lucid’s, as their style and perspectives on Mailer were much different.
Creator
- From the Collection: Lennon, Michael (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu