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Norris Church Mailer

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The Resume

    (January 31, 1949-November 21, 2010)
    Born in Atkins, Arkansas
    Birth name was Barbara Jean Davis
    Model with Wilhelmina
    Married novelist Norman Mailer (1980-2007)
    Wrote the novels 'Windchill Summer' (2000) and 'Cheap Diamonds' and the memoirs 'A Ticket to the Circus' (2010)

Why she might be annoying:

    She claimed to have had a fling with Bill Clinton (1974).
    She and Mailer had a son two years before they got married.
    She said of her relationship with Mailer, 'Sex was the core that bound us together.'
    She said, 'He never laid a hand on me, although I hit him plenty of times.'
    Mailer's response to an early draft of 'Windchill Summer' was, 'It was not as bad as I thought it would be.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was a statuesque beauty with great legs.
    After meeting Mailer, she sent him a love poem; he sent it back with corrections in red ink.
    During her modeling years, she also had nine one-woman shows of her paintings.
    She was a loving stepmother to Mailer's seven kids from five previous relationships.
    Doris Kearns Goodwin said, 'Norris was a force of nature in that relationship. She brought steadiness and happiness and a fulfillment he never had before.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 35 Votes: 5.71% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 38 Votes: 26.32% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 30 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 48 Votes: 45.83% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 65.00% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 113 Votes: 63.72% Annoying