Literary Birthday – 31 January – Norris Church Mailer

Norris Church Mailer was born 31 January 1949 and died 21 November 2010.

Norris Church Mailer Quotes

1. Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don’t know why I was surprised to see elephants.
2. To me, the humour and irony was inherent. But you can’t transfer the twinkle in the eye to the page, so a lot of people treated everything he said as perfectly serious, like his famous comment that women should be kept in cages. Who would think he was serious about that?
3. He said he needed to live that kind of double life, to know what his characters were going through.

Norris Church Mailer was an American writer. She is the author of the memoir, A Ticket to the Circus, and of two novels. Her first novel, Windchill Summer is about a young girl struggling to grow up in Arkansas during the Vietnam War. The sequel, Cheap Diamonds is a story about a young woman who moves to New York to become a model in the 1970s. She was also married to American novelist, Norman Mailer.

Source for image: Norris Church Mailer. Photo by Lawrence Schiller. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

by Amanda Patterson

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