Carole Mallory June 2010 photo Bill Cavanaugh


Norman and Carole

Mallory as a supermodel photographed for cover of COSMOPOLITAN

Carole Mallory As Pan Am stewardess - Mid sixties

Mallory as a supermodel photographed for cover of NEWSWEEK

Carole and Norman on set of Tough Guys Don't Dance in Provincetown

Mailer, Mallory and McInerney at Elaine's for book party for FLASH

Mallory as a supermodel photographed for cover of PARADE

Mailer and Mallory when they first met in Hollywood in her apartment in front of her tear sheets from modeling

Mallory's watercolor of her grandfather

Mallory's charcoal drawing of her t-cup poodle, Sir Winston

Carole Mallory - Fellow Pan Am stewardesses at JFK Pan Am terminal in mid sixties

Biography

Carole Mallory is a journalist, actress, professor and movie critic. In addition to her memoir, LOVING MAILER, and her novel, FLASH, Mallory has written profiles on Vonnegut, Heller, Jong, McInerney, Vidal, Baryshnikov, and Dudley Moore for ESQUIRE, PARADE, ELLE, LA MAGAZINE, PLAYBOY, THE HUFFINGTON POST and THE WRAP.COM

As a supermodel, her face graced the covers of COSMOPOLITAN, NEWSWEEK, ESQUIRE, G.Q., and NEW YORK MAGAZINE (three times). Mallory's acting credits include LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR and STEPFORD WIVES, portraying one of the wives. She also performed in television movies and sit-coms. Her acting resume is available under the acting page of this website as well as the Internet Movie Database. (IMDb)

After graduating from Pennsylvania State University, Mallory attended Temple's Tyler School of Art for her Masters, briefly taught art, then flew to Europe, Africa and Asia as a stewardess for Pan Am. Eventually she studied creative writing at U.C.L.A. and with Margaret Atwood and Gordon Lish at Columbia University.

When her story of overcoming alcoholism was the cover story of PARADE MAGAZINE, Mallory was asked to speak at her alma mater, Pennsylvania State University, for a D.U.I. convention of mothers who had lost children to drunk drivers.

In 2008, for her Norman Mailer archive Mallory had offers from the University of Texas, the New York Public Library and Harvard University.She chose to sell her archive to Harvard University as a result of their expressed respect for the value of the material.

In 2010, NORMAN MAILER:THE AMERICAN, a documentary from Eraser Films directed by Joe Mantegna premiered at the Boston Film Festival. It featured interviews with Mallory based on her memoir, LOVING MAILER.

On 3/​30/​2011, Manhattan's Gerson Cultural Center, created by Eleanor Roosevelt, asked her to speak about how her memoir relates to Mailer's writings.

In the fall of 2011, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER offered Mallory a contract to review "And So It Goes" biography of Kurt Vonnegut by C. Shields.

In the fall of 2011, Mallory taught the art of the memoir at Cheltenham Adult School.

In the spring of 2012, Mallory will be teaching a course “My Memoir and Me” at Widener University.









Last Update: 12/​17/​2011

Selected Works

Memoirs
Loving Mailer
In LOVING MAILER, Mallory details her passionate affair with the renowned author and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Fiction
Flash
FLASH is fast, smart and irresistible to read.
--GLORIA STEINEM
Memoir in progress

PICASSO'S GHOST....Meeting Claude Picasso, Pablo's son, and falling in love