Authors
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Peter Alson
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Danielle Mailer
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Elizabeth Mailer
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Jeffrey Michelson
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Keywords:
Mailer family, father-daughter relationship, Danielle Mailer, Elizabeth Mailer, Peter Alson, life lessons
Abstract
A panel discussion of relatives and a friend of Norman Mailer as they recount his personal legacy of insight and wisdom.
Author Biographies
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Peter Alson
Peter Alson is an author and editor (nybookdoctor.com). His books include the highly acclaimed memoirs Confessions of an Ivy League Bookie and Take Me to the River. His articles have appeared in many national magazines, including Esquire, Playboy and The New York Times. He has written screenplays for Paramount and various independent producers, and his TV pilot, Nicky’s Game, starring John Ventimiglia and Burt Young, appeared in the New York Television Festival and the Vail Film Festival. He lives in New York with his wife, Alice, and their daughter, Eden.
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Danielle Mailer
Danielle Mailer has a BA in Fine Art from Bowdoin College. In the last three decades she has been working as a professional artist, and is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, Mass. She is also a “public-artist” who has permanent installations in NYC, Boston, and Connecticut. She is completing her six commissions for Boston Children's hospital and has just finished her most ambitions project to date, a 200-foot mural on the back of a Staples in Torrington Connecticut, which was featured in The New York Times Metro section, Summer 2016. She is also Chair of the Art department at Salisbury Boys School in Salisbury CT. She lives with her Husband, jazz musician Peter McEachern, and their three grown children who visit often.
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Elizabeth Mailer
Elizabeth Mailer is a writer. She has been writing fervently since the age of nine. Currently, she is working on a memoir. Also in various stages of process are three other books: a novel, a non-fiction book of her photos and NYC Vignettes, and a book about her late mother’s decline into dementia.
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Jeffrey Michelson
Jeffrey Michelson was influenced by two geniuses. In 1967, he was Norman Mailer’s houseboy/sparring partner; in 1970, John Lennon appointed him Apple Records’ media designer. Michelson created the groundbreaking sex magazine Puritan, then enjoyed careers in TV commercials, book and website design. Mailer bequeathed the Foreword to Michelson’s acclaimed erotic memoir, Laura Meets Jeffrey.
