A Ticket to the Circus
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I offer a special thanks to Larry Schiller for his ingenuity and his hard work in forming the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and for being a friend and colleague over the years. Sam Radin, also, was instrumental in the founding of the colony, and is invaluable to me with his sound advice.
A big thank-you and much love to Mike Lennon, Norman’s dear friend and authorized biographer, who is responsible for putting together the vast Mailer archive now housed in the Ransom Center in Texas, and his wife, Donna, who is his partner in all things.
I send special thanks to my agent, Ike Williams, who is always there for me, and a heartfelt thank-you to Random House; its publisher, Gina Centrello; my editor, David Ebershoff, who is a fine writer in his own right, and who guided me with an easy hand; Jynne Martin and Carol Schneider, friends and publicists extraordinaire; Janet Wygal, copy editor; Laura Goldin, lawyer; and the wonderful designers, Kimberly Glyder, Paolo Pepe, and Barbara Bachman, who made the book such a pleasure to look at.
PHOTO CREDITS
Page references refer to print page numbers in the book ISBN: 9781400067947
Title page Francis Delia
41 Lee Rogers
46 (top) Bill Ward
46 (bottom) Bill Ward
69 Jean Jewell Moreno
70 Jean Jewell Moreno
84 Andy Anders
130 Norman Mailer
146 Francis Delia
154 Lee Rogers
173 Milton H. Greene © 2010 Joshua Greene, www.legendslicensing.com
180 Lisette Lenzi
209 Robert Belott
220 Marco Colodro
226 Robert Belott
230 Photograph © by Jill Krementz, used by permission of the photographer; all rights reserved
235 Photograph © by Jill Krementz, used by permission of the photographer; all rights reserved
245 Photograph © by Jill Krementz, used by permission of the photographer; all rights reserved
247 Photograph © by Jill Krementz, used by permission of the photographer; all rights reserved
254 Joel Meyerowitz © 2009 courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery
255 Dotson Rader
278 Getty Images/Carl Mydan
303 Tom Luddy
308 Tom Luddy
314 Robert Belott
328 Juan Moreno
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NORRIS CHURCH MAILER is the author of Windchill Summer and Cheap Diamonds. She was raised in Arkansas and now lives in Brooklyn. She is the mother of two sons, two stepsons, and five stepdaughters, as well as a grandmother to two, a stepgrandmother to ten, and a “grantie” to one. She was married for thirty-three years to Norman Mailer, who passed away in 2007. She misses him still.
Copyright © 2010 by Norris Church Mailer
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Mailer, Norris Church.
A ticket to the circus: a memoir/Norris Church Mailer.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-979-6
1. Mailer, Norris Church—Marriage. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Authors’ spouses—United States—Biography. 4. Mailer, Norman—Marriage. I. Title.
PS3563.A3824Z47 2010
813′.54—dc22
[B] 2009033941
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Title page photo by Francis Delia
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