Growing Up with Norman

Authors

  • Barbara Mailer Wasserman Author

Keywords:

family narrative, literary biography, sibling relationships, childhood and upbringing, authorial influence, personal narrative

Abstract

We sometimes walked around the streets of Brooklyn on cold winter days, carrying our ice skates and trying to find a tennis court that was flooded and frozen over. I remember nothing ever seemed to get frozen except our feet. A couple of years later, when he wanted to learn ballroom dancing, he got a book that diagrammed the fox trot and other dance steps with pictures of the feet, and we practiced together. I learned to dance. I’m afraid he didn’t.

Author Biography

  • Barbara Mailer Wasserman

    Barbara Mailer Wasserman has been a researcher on documentary films, an editor at Simon & Schuster, and a sometime writer. Her publications include The Bold New Women, an anthology of women writers, published in 1967, and revised edition in 1970, and “Spain, 1948,” published in The Hudson Review, Autumn, 2000.

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Published

2026-01-25

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2007): Inaugural Issue

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