18 Facts About Susan Mailer

Susan Mailer was born on August 28,1949 and is an American psychoanalyst, writer, and academic who has lived in Chile since the 1980s.

Susan Mailer is the author of the 2019 memoir In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer that chronicles her relationship with her famous father.

Susan Mailer was born in Hollywood, California, while her father was there writing screenplays.

Susan Mailer lived for a time with her father's parents before moving to Mexico City to live with her mother.

Susan Mailer spent her early years between Mexico and the US, becoming bilingual and bicultural which taught her "a sense of cultural colors and nuances from an early age", but made her feel like an outsider no matter where she was physically or mentally.

Susan Mailer attended the infamous April 30,1971, Town Hall, "A Dialogue on Women's Liberation", wherein Norman Mailer, acting as moderator, received a "pummeling" by the panel of high-profile feminists.

Susan Mailer completed her graduate work in Clinical Psychology in Mexico and became a psychoanalyst in 1992.

Susan Mailer ultimately finds a kinship with her father through a shared search for human understanding: she as a psychoanalyst and he as a novelist.

Norman Mailer died in 2007, an event that Susan Mailer says was necessary for her to begin putting her relationship with him in perspective and to pick up the writer's pen.

Susan Mailer says, "I never felt I could write until my father was gone".

Susan Mailer tells Mike Lennon that "writing this memoir was a second analysis for me", and it was instrumental in helping her understand her complex emotions toward her father and her mother.

Susan Mailer ultimately had to work through a largely negative view of her father who had come to sympathize with many of her father's opponents, particularly women.

Susan Mailer has taught at Universidad Catolica de Chile, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, and Universidad Diego Portales.

Susan Mailer has published in academic journals, both in Spanish and English, and co-founded the Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago.

Susan Mailer is a member of various professional associations, like the International Psychoanalytic Association and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Susan Mailer serves on the Executive Board of the Norman Mailer Society and has published in The Mailer Review.

Susan Mailer met her husband Marco in Mexico City in 1975.

Susan Mailer has nine siblings, three grown children, and four grandchildren.