Larry Schiller, Norman Mailer, and the Making of "The Executioner's Song"

Larry Schiller, Norman Mailer, and the Making of "The Executioner's Song"

The convicted murderer Gary Gilmore in 1977, shortly before his execution. Norman Mailer swore he’d never work with Lawrence Schiller again. But financial need changed his mind—and literary history By David Margolick A few months after the “Rumble in the Jungle”—Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman in Zaire on October 30, 1974—Neil Leifer, who’d photographed the bout for Sports Illustrated, had a memorable encounter with Norman Mailer. It came at a p…

Literature’s oddest couple? Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced a masterpiece and a litany of bad ideas... more

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