Norman Mailer and Madonna

The lifelong correspondence of Norman Mailer has been made public, revealing the flirtations, friendships and feuds of one of 20th century literature’s outstanding pugilists.
The archive contains letters to and from about 3,500 names including Madonna, Bill Clinton, Lord Bragg and Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy.
Mailer, who died aged 84 in November, lived too much of his life in public for there to be major surprises in the archive. But it does provide intriguing insights into a character often obscured by bombast.
Woody Allen once quipped that Mailer’s ego was so massive that he had “donated” it to Harvard for medical research.

Yet Mailer was not too proud to accept as a compliment Madonna‘s thanks to him for not misquoting her in a journalistic profile.

“Thank you for being so brave,” she wrote in 1994, cheerily signing off “Love Madonna“. Mailer replied flirtatiously: “You deserve every good thing I said about you . . . Cheers, amities, Norman.”
Source: Times Online
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