On the Same Page with Norris Church Mailer

Norris Church Mailer recently sat down with Kane Webb and discussed her new book A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir. Mailer, Barbara Jean Davis, was the sixth wife of Pulitzer Prize winning-writer Norman Mailer.

A Ticket to the Circus paints a portrait of her life from her early beginnings in a small Arkansas town and the struggle to find her way in the world. She writes of her instant attraction to Norman Mailer after meeting him at a party in Russellville with hopes of obtaining his autograph inside Marilyn, a biography by the controversial writer in 1973.

Mailer shares many anecdotes of her 32-year marriage to Norman including his death in 2007.  Mailer currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and has penned two other novels, Windchill Summer and Cheap Diamonds.