INTELLIGENT LIFE
Barbara met Norman Mailer the next year. He was passing through Arkansas, and she wrangled an invitation to a cocktail party held in his honour. Norman was, at 52, twice her age. He was also married to one woman, living with another, having a serious affair with a third, and leaving the next morning. “So we did it on the living room floor,” she writes. Within a year, Barbara moved to New York. She signed with a modelling agency and changed her name to Norris Church—a combination of her first husband’s last name and a nod to the Baptists.
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