2010
Norris Church Mailer publishes her memoir A Ticket to the Circus and dies on 11 November 2010; Lawrence Schiller's oversize Taschen Moonfire abridges Of a Fire on the Moon, and Dwayne Raymond's Mornings with Mailer recalls Mailer's last Provincetown years.
January and June
Dwayne Raymond‘s Mornings with Mailer (10.01) recalls Mailer’s last Provincetown years; in June, Lawrence Schiller‘s oversize Taschen Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 (10.03) re-presents Of a Fire on the Moon with hundreds of photographs.
April — A Ticket to the Circus
On 10 April Random House publishes A Ticket to the Circus (10.02), the memoir of Norris Church Mailer, Mailer’s wife of twenty-seven years, which prints several of his love letters to her.
November — the Society conference
November 4–6 — The Norman Mailer Society holds its 8th annual conference in Sarasota, Florida, on the theme “Mailer and Hemingway”; its proceedings anchor The Mailer Review’s 2010 Hemingway special issue. Conference program (PDF).
November — Norris Church Mailer’s death
Norris Church Mailer died on 11 November 2010, of cancer. The Mailer Review’s 2011 issue would devote 166 pages to her memory (11.04).
Related pages
- 2009 | 2011
- Norris Church Mailer | Lawrence Schiller | A Ticket to the Circus
- Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship (10.01) | Norman Mailer: Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 (10.03) | Norris Mailer: A Life in Words (11.04)