Gerald Walker
American writer and editor (long on the staff of The New York Times Magazine) and author of the novel Cruising (1970); wrote a long 1961 profile of Mailer in the aftermath of the Adele stabbing.
Gerald Walker was an American writer and editor, long on the staff of The New York Times Magazine and the author of the novel Cruising (1970). His 1961 profile The Ordeal of Norman Mailer, drawn from interviews conducted soon after the November 1960 stabbing of Adele, is a vivid contemporary portrait of Mailer at his nadir.