Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/54

From Project Mailer

I understand now what Danny[1] meant when he said Bea[2] has become a caricature of me. Wise Danny. He understands so very much.



notes

  1. A close friend of Mailer’s in the 1950s, Daniel Wolf (1915 – 1996), the co-founder of the Village Voice, introduced Mailer to his second wife, Adele Morales.
  2. Beatrice Silverman (1922 – 2016) was Mailer’s first wife. They met when she was a student at Boston University and he was at Harvard. They married in 1944 and their only child Susan, was born in 1949. After their divorce in January 1952, Silverman moved to Mexico, married Steve Chavez, and became an M.D. psychiatrist.