Norman Mailer — the prolific author of over 40 books, including “The Naked and the Dead ” and “The Executioner's Song” — will be in Paris this summer. His brief? To address a literary conference, hosted by The American University of Paris, to pay tribute to James Jones, a fellow American author, who lived in this city from 1958 to 1974, and died in the United States three years later.
At the prospect of returning Mailer said, “It’s always a particular pleasure to come back one more time to Paris where I spent many of the most interesting months of my life, but the thought that on this trip I can speak about one of America’s major postwar novelists and my sometime friend, James Jones, on the morning of one day, and then — on the evening of the next — be able to read with George Plimpton and my wife, Norris Church, in George’s play, ‘Zelda, Scott and Ernest’ increases my anticipation by an order of magnitude.”
James Jones, is best known for his novels “From Here to Eternity ” and “Some Came Running.” Mailer will be joined by others such as George Plimpton, the editor of “The Paris Review,” who also knew Jones during his Paris years.
Benefit dramatic reading of "Zelda, Scott and Ernest” with Norman Mailer, Norris Church & George Plimpton June 23, 7:30pm, The American Church in Paris, 65 quai d'Orsay, 7e, 27-108 Euros (25-100 dollars) Reservations required for both events, info: 01 40 62 06 02/ email: schott@aup.edu
