1923
Norman Kingsley Mailer (Hebrew name Nachum Melech) is born on 31 January in Long Branch, New Jersey, to Isaac Barnett "Barney" Mailer and Fanny "Fan" Schneider Mailer. The family lives with Fan's parents in Long Branch, first on Morris Avenue and then in "Kingsley Court" — a cluster of three large beach cottages owned by the Schneiders at Beach and Ocean Avenues, named for the newborn.
January
31 January — Norman Kingsley Mailer is born in Long Branch, NJ — the first child of Barney and Fan Mailer, who had married in Manhattan on 12 February 1922. His Hebrew name is Nachum Melech.
The Long Branch household
In 1923 the Mailers live with Fan’s family in Long Branch — first on Morris Avenue, and then in a cluster of three large beach “cottages” at Beach and Ocean Avenues owned by Fan’s parents and named “Kingsley Court” after Norman. The Schneider hotels along the Long Branch shore will remain a central locus of Mailer family life through the 1930s.
Context
Sources disagree on Mailer’s birth year. Lennon’s Days RTF, Mailer’s own recollections, every standard reference, and the ProjectMailer.net biographical summary all give 31 January 1923. The ProjectMailer.net “Important Dates” table opens with 1928 | Born January 31, Long Branch, New Jersey... — a typographic slip in the source document; the correct year is 1923. Flagged for correction in the upstream source.
Related pages
- pre-1923 | 1924
- Isaac Barnett "Barney" Mailer | Fanny "Fan" Schneider Mailer
- Long Branch, New Jersey