Hello, my name is Kate. Kate Mailer. Good afternoon. Just to get you all oriented, well, you probably all know this already, as I am sure you are all very familiar with the all the details, but I’ll just go over it anyway, even if it is just to remind myself. I am the 4th daughter as well as the 4th child of the third wife of Norman Mailer. First, there was Bea, Wife #1, who had Sue, then there was Adele, Wife #2, who had Danielle and Betsy, and then there was Jeannie, the British wife, Wife #3 who had me.
Now, let me be totally honest with you all. When Mike— Mike Lennon, that is, not Mike Mailer, invited me to do this, I just thought, and said, Oh, no, no no no no no. I can’t do that, Mike. I don’t have anything to add, Mike, to what you and all of your esteemed fellow Norman Mailer Society friends and colleagues know and have studied and read and pondered and expressed vis a vis Dad.