In Brooklyn Heights

Abstract

In this excerpt, Chapter 13 of her memoir In Another Place With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer recalls living with her father in his Brooklyn Heights brownstone from late 1962 to 1964. She describes her loneliness after her stepmother Jeanne’s departure, finding her place at a progressive Greenwich Village school, the arrival of Beverly Bentley and the birth of Michael Mailer, the family’s reaction to the Kennedy assassination, her father’s writing routine and lessons in style during the serialization of An American Dream, and the custody tug-of-war that sent her back to Mexico with her mother.