Love of My Life

Her brother, author Norman Mailer, became one of the 20th Century's most celebrated and controversial literary figures. Now, 94-year-old Barbara Mailer Wasserman shows that she got writing chops of her own. Whether taking delightful revenge as a kind of proto-Carrie Bradshaw on a rude, real-life Randolph Churchill, or joining the Spanish resistance to smuggle fascist dictator Francisco Franco's political prisoners across the French border, or nonchalantly greeting the news that her brother's novel, The Naked and the Dead, has overnight leapt to the top of bestseller lists, Wasserman is openhearted, touching, whimsical, self-revealing and always acutely conscious of her good fortune.