Interview with Susan Mailer, Author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer

Authors

  • J. Michael Lennon Wilkes University Author

Keywords:

Susan Mailer, memoir, father-daughter relationship, psychoanalysis, Mexico, Chile

Abstract

Reprinted from Hippocampus Magazine, J. Michael Lennon’s interview with Susan Mailer, Norman Mailer’s eldest child and a practicing psychoanalyst, explores her memoir In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer. She discusses the book’s origins, a childhood divided between Mexico and New York, her life in Chile, her ties to her siblings, the effect of her father’s stabbing of Adele Morales, and the family’s summers in Provincetown.

Author Biography

  • J. Michael Lennon, Wilkes University

    J. Michael Lennon is the late Norman Mailer’s archivist, editor, and authorized biographer. Norman Mailer: A Double Life appeared in 2013, and Selected Letters of Norman Mailer in 2104. His work has appeared in Paris Review, New Yorker, New York, Times Literary Supplement, Creative Nonfiction, NYRB, Mailer Review, Playboy, Hippocampus, and Provincetown Arts, among others. He has recently edited two volumes of Norman Mailer’s work from the 1960s for the Library of America.

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Published

2019-10-10

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Interviews

How to Cite

Lennon, J. Michael. “Interview With Susan Mailer, Author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, pp. 109–115, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/689.