Пока жену

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Пока жену не покромсаешь, не почуфствуешь любофь

Родился в Лонг-Бранче (Нью-Джерси) в еврейской семье. Отец — счетовод Исаак Барнет Мейлер, родился в ЮАР; мать — сиделка и домохозяйка Фаня Шнейдер, младшие сёстры — Барбара и Норма.


Рос в Нью-Йорке, обучался в школе в бруклинском районе Бедфорд — Стайвесант[11]. В 1939 году поступил в Гарвардский университет, где изучал аэронавтику, окончил университет в 1943 году. В студенческие годы заинтересовался литературной деятельностью — первый рассказ был написан и опубликован им в возрасте 18 лет, в 1941 году, и получил премию университетского журнала.

Воевал на Филиппинах. Кроме литературы, занимался журналистикой (он — один из основателей школы «нового журнализма»), писал киносценарии, сам снял несколько фильмов, в некоторых из них выступал как актёр.

В 1960 году в состоянии опьянения серьёзно ранил свою жену (вторую по счёту) перочинным ножом, после чего его поместили в сумасшедший дом на две недели. Позднее посвятил этому эпизоду стихотворение «Дождливым вечером с женой», в котором говорилось: «Пока ты в ход пускаешь нож, любовь жива».
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Норман Кингсли Мейлер (англ. Norman Kingsley Mailer, 1923 Лонг-Бранч, Нью-Джерси — 2007 Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк)

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Marriages and children

Mailer was married six times and had nine children. He fathered eight children by his various wives and informally adopted his sixth wife's son from another marriage.

Mailer's first marriage was to Beatrice Silverman. They eloped in January 1944 because neither family would likely have approved.[110] They had one child, Susan, and divorced in 1952 because of Mailer's infidelities with Adele Morales.[111]

Morales moved in with Mailer during 1951 into an apartment on First Avenue near Second Street in the East Village,[112] and they married in 1954. They had two daughters, Danielle and Elizabeth. After hosting a party on Saturday, November 19, 1960, Mailer stabbed Adele twice with a two-and-a-half inch blade that he used to clean his nails, nearly killing her by puncturing her pericardium.[113] He stabbed her once in the chest and once in the back. Adele required emergency surgery but made a quick recovery.[114][115] Mailer claimed he had stabbed Adele "to relieve her of cancer".[116][117] He was involuntarily committed to Bellevue Hospital for 17 days.[118] While Adele did not press charges, saying she wanted to protect their daughters,[119] Mailer later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault saying, "I feel I did a lousy, dirty, cowardly thing",[120] and received a suspended sentence of three years' probation.[121][122] In 1962, the two divorced. In 1997, Adele published a memoir of their marriage entitled The Last Party, which recounted her husband stabbing her at a party and the aftermath. This incident has been a focal point for feminist critics of Mailer, who point to themes of sexual violence in his work.[123]

His third wife, whom he married in 1962, and divorced in 1963, was the British heiress and journalist Lady Jeanne Campbell (1929–2007). She was the only daughter of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, a Scottish aristocrat and clan chief with a notorious private life, and his first wife Janet Gladys Aitken, who was a daughter of the press baron Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. The couple had a daughter, actress Kate Mailer.[124]

His fourth marriage, in 1963, was to Beverly Bentley, a former model turned actress. She was the mother of two of his sons, producer Michael Mailer and actor Stephen Mailer. They divorced in 1980.

His fifth wife was Carol Stevens, a jazz singer whom he married on November 7, 1980, and divorced in Haiti on November 8, 1980, thereby legitimating their daughter Maggie, born in 1971.[125]

His sixth and last wife, whom he married in 1980, was Norris Church Mailer (born Barbara Jean Davis, 1949–2010), an art teacher. They had one son together, John Buffalo Mailer, a writer and actor. Mailer raised and informally adopted Matthew Norris, Church's son by her first husband, Larry Norris. Living in Brooklyn, New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts with Mailer, Church worked as a model, wrote and painted.