Drawing on fifty years of teaching and study, this work by Donald L. Kaufmann examines the legacy of the consummate American writer, Norman Mailer (1923-2007). Kaufmann compares Mailers achievement to the Literary NaturalistsCrane, Norris, London, and Dreiser. He contrasts Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald and others, before surveying Mailers relationship to Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Existentialism, and Postmodern.