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David Margolick

David Margolick


The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part IV

Norman Mailer snubbed Lawrence Schiller when accepting the Pulitzer Prize for The Executioner’s Song. But that didn’t stop Schiller from cutting Mailer in on his latest exclusive: Lee Harvey Oswald’s K.G.B. files

The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part III

Norman Mailer swore he’d never work with Lawrence Schiller again. But financial need changed his mind—and literary history

The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II

Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller’s Marilyn: A Biography sold more copies than anything Mailer ever wrote. He also believed it cost him a Nobel Prize

The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part I

How the unlikely, tumultuous partnership of Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced the true-crime masterpiece The Executioner’s Song

Hail, Caesar!

A new book tells the story of Sid Caesar, the often-overlooked Jewish sketch comedian who inspired everyone from Woody Allen to Conan O’Brien