Robert Lindner (1914–1956): A psychoanalyst and author of several works of popular psychology, including Rebel without a Cause: The Story of a Criminal Psychopath (1944) and Prescription for Rebellion (1952), Lindner became close friends with NM shortly after they began their correspondence. He was to NM in psychology what Jean Malaquais was in politics. to Knopf and Random House: After Rinehart rejected DP, it was submitted to six publishing houses before it was accepted by the seventh, G. P. Putnam’s. NM liked the chief executive, Walter Minton, who reminded him of a general, and remained with Putnam’s through 1967. NM recounts the saga of DP in “The Mind of an Outlaw” (Esquire, November 1959), which was reprinted as “The Last Draft of The Deer Park” in AFM 228–267.

Lipton’s: Or tea, another name for marijuana, which NM smoked from the early 50s through the 60s before stopping in the 70s. During this period he compiled a 100,000-word journal, titled “Lipton’s,” which records his observations before, during, and after using the drug. The manuscript is in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at
Austin.

three large subjects: All three are explored in AFM.