Mailer Family Colloquium

Authors

  • Barbara Mailer Wasserman Author
  • Susan Mailer Author
  • John Buffalo Mailer Author

Keywords:

Mailer family dynamics, literary family history, Jewish identity and culture, autobiographical memory, artistic inheritance, family and celebrity, oral history and reminiscence

Abstract

Three members of the Mailer family share their memories of Norman Mailer.

Author Biographies

  • Barbara Mailer Wasserman

    Barbara Mailer Wasserman is Norman Mailer’s sister and has worked as a researcher for film and television documentaries, as a book editor, and in 1967 published The Bold New Women, an anthology of contemporary women writers. At present, she is writing short memoirs.

  • Susan Mailer

    Susan Mailer is a psychoanalyst. She is a faculty member of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association and contributes to various psychoanalytic journals. She supervises and has her private practice in Santiago, Chile.

  • John Buffalo Mailer

    John Buffalo Mailer is an actor, playwright, producer, and journalist. He is the author of Hello Herman, Co-Author of The Big Empty, and he developed the Broadway musical, In The Heights. He has appeared in New York Magazine, Playboy, The American Conservative, High Times, Stop Smiling, and is serializing a memoir in Inked Magazine. He can be seen in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, and is currently in Matthew Barney's River of Fundament and the upcoming Friends And Romans.

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Published

2026-10-10

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Interviews