The Norman Mailer Center Gala - A Meeting of Giants

Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, New York City 
What: Fourth Annual Benefit Gala honoring Robert A. Caro, Joyce Carol Oates, Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr., and The Muhammad Ali Center represented by Muhammad Ali

'With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.' -- Norman Mailer 

Norman Mailer and Muhammad Ali arm wrestling

The Norman Mailer Center supports and celebrates writers who challenge readers' perspective on the world around them, promoting a vision of writers as "people of action."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Muhammad Ali

A diverse set of programming supports the Center's mission, including creative writing workshops, the Mailer Fellowships, and initiatives for international outreach and exchange. Through its work, the Center provides support to early- and mid-center writers in all genres who embrace the values that drove Mailer's work: those who reach a broad audience, fully excise their creativity, apply themselves to the craft of writing with the rigor of an athlete, and thrive on dialogue and debate. 

The Norman Mailer Center and the NM Writers Colony

In 2011, the Center launched a Capital Campaign to purchase the historic Mailer Home in Provincetown, MA, from the Mailer estate, which includes his writing studio and Mailer's personal library of over four thousand books. 

The Center aims to preserve the role of the engaged writer's as not only a legitimate, but indispensable voice in the contemporary discourse (The Normal Mailer Center Website - nmcenter.org).