From the Archives: Jean Stafford on Norman Mailer’s Prurient Marilyn Monroe Biography
Having joined the hungry (curious adjective) ranks of those who like to coin a word, Mr. Mailer then takes such a fancy to “factoid” that you’d think he hadn’t had a neologism in a month of Sundays; “factoids” and “factoidals” litter every few pages of what he calls his “Novel Biography.” The supply is far greater than the...





