Norris Church Mailer now lives in Cape Cod with Norman Mailer, her husband of twenty years. Born and raised in Atkins, Arkansas, she had a Freewill Baptist childhood and worked in the Atkins pickle plant. She was an art teacher and married her high school sweetheart who had been to Vietnam. She divorced her first husband and met Norman Mailer in 1975. She became a Wilhemina fashion model in New York, has had nine one-woman shows as a painter, acted in soaps, held an actors' studio and written plays. Windchill Summer is her first novel.