Carole Mallory

April, 2008: Norman Mailer's longtime mistress Carole Mallory sold, amongst other things, an unpublished autobiographical novel that includes a Mailer-inspired sex scene. Harvard University bought the material for an undisclosed sum.

The collection contains correspondence from Mailer, photographs, transcripts of interviews Mallory conducted with him.

Quotes

1. "There's a 20-page sex scene from an unpublished memoir I wrote called 'Making Love With Norman'... It's very steamy. Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing."
2. (On Mailer): "He taught me to write...He gave me a hit list once—a dos and don’ts for writers. It was very funny. There were 10 of them and they were very, very good"
3. "I rejected Jack Nicholson...And I enjoyed Warren Beatty."

Fast Facts

1. Also dated: Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, Richard Gere and Rod Stewart
2. Former model, actress and journalist
3. Met Mailer in 1983
4. Dated Mailer for nine years
5. Mailer remained married as he dated Mallory
6. Harvard also bought a novel edited by the late author
7. Mailer sold most of his personal archive to the University of Texas

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