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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Norman Mailer would often abuse many types of drugs and alcohol. Mailer also had a short temper and would happily engage in Head-butting, arm-wrestling, and random punch throwing. For much of the 50's he drifted, frequently drunk or stoned or both. * Mcgrath, Charles (2007). "Norman Mailer, Towering Writer with Matching Ego, Dies at 84". | Norman Mailer would often abuse many types of drugs and alcohol. Mailer also had a short temper and would happily engage in Head-butting, arm-wrestling, and random punch throwing. For much of the 50's he drifted, frequently drunk or stoned or both. * Mcgrath, Charles (2007). "Norman Mailer, Towering Writer with Matching Ego, Dies at 84". The Mailers had been married six years. Norman was waiting on a hearing of a charge of disorderly conduct. He had gotten into a hassle over a tab of $7.60 a week before at Birdland. Adele told the arresting detectives the night of November 20 that he had been displaying "homicidal tendencies". Their family had been attempting to get him to see a psychiatrist. | ||
==The Incident== | ==The Incident== | ||
They hosted a party on November 19, 1960. In the early hours the next morning, people at the party got incredibly drunk, and quarrels broke out. Mailer and his sister got into a fight about her campaign that he did not agree with. He started hitting her, then the Mailer couple themselves got into an argument when Adele tried to defend her. Some say that Adele taunted his literary talents during their tiff. He stabbed her by the heart in her upper abdomen, and in the back, both by a penknife. She was not taken to the hospital until three hours after he hurt her. When she arrived, she told the hospital, though they were skeptical, that she had fallen on a broken bottle. She told police the truth in the afternoon after her surgery. | |||
==The Aftermath== | ==The Aftermath== | ||
Initially, Mailer plead “not guilty,” but later changed his plea to “guilty” in order to avoid harmful publicity for his family.{{sfn|Lennon|2013|p=269}} | Mailer was arrested at the hospital around 10pm. Initially, Mailer plead “not guilty,” but later changed his plea to “guilty” in order to avoid harmful publicity for his family.{{sfn|Lennon|2013|p=269}} | ||
After the stabbing, Mailer was committed to Bellevue hospital. "I was very upset, because me feeling was I committed a crime." His criminal lawyer had suggested him going into the hospital. "He was thinking like a criminal lawyer" Mailer spoke. They used the mental hospital as a way to save him if his wife did end up dying from the injuries inflicted upon her. Mailer hated this, he felt he would go crazy if he'd be there any longer. {{sfn|Legs|2020|pg:51}} | After the stabbing, Mailer was committed to Bellevue hospital. "I was very upset, because me feeling was I committed a crime." His criminal lawyer had suggested him going into the hospital. "He was thinking like a criminal lawyer" Mailer spoke. They used the mental hospital as a way to save him if his wife did end up dying from the injuries inflicted upon her. Mailer hated this, he felt he would go crazy if he'd be there any longer. {{sfn|Legs|2020|pg:51}} | ||
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* {{cite book |last=McKinley |first=Maggie |date={{date|2021}} |chapter=Introduction |title=Norman Mailer in Context |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge UP |pages=1–10 |isbn= |author-link= }} | * {{cite book |last=McKinley |first=Maggie |date={{date|2021}} |chapter=Introduction |title=Norman Mailer in Context |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge UP |pages=1–10 |isbn= |author-link= }} | ||
* {{cite web |url= https://www.criminalelement.com/blood-in-the-morning-the-turbulent-relationship-of-norman-mailer-and-adele-morales/|title= Blood in the Morning: The Turbulent Relationship of Norman Mailer and Adele Morales |last= Moore |first= M.J. |date= February 21, 2020 |publisher= Criminal Element |access-date= September 21, 2022 }} | * {{cite web |url= https://www.criminalelement.com/blood-in-the-morning-the-turbulent-relationship-of-norman-mailer-and-adele-morales/|title= Blood in the Morning: The Turbulent Relationship of Norman Mailer and Adele Morales |last= Moore |first= M.J. |date= February 21, 2020 |publisher= Criminal Element |access-date= September 21, 2022 }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Bufithis |first=H. Philip |date=1978 |title=Norman Mailer |url= |location=NewYork |publisher=Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. |pages=1-147 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | |||
* {{cite news |last=Daily News |first=New York |date=2015 |title=Norman Mailer stabs his wife Adele in 1960 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/norman-mailer-stabs-wife-adele-1960-article-1.2429789 |work=news |location=New York |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
* {{cite news |last=Cornwell |first=Rupert |date=2015 |title=Adele Mailer |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=n5h&AN=4HGINDINMLMMGLSTRY000025685884&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=ns235467 |work=article |location=UK |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
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