Mallory v. S & S Publishers

OPINION

Slomsky, J.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case involves allegations of defamation arising from a 2013 biography entitled *456Norman Mailer: A Double Life. From 1983 to 1992, Plaintiff Carole Mallory was romantically .involved with the late American writer Norman Mailer. In 2013, six years after Mailer’s death, Defendant Simon and Schuster, Inc. published Norman Mailer: A Double Life, written by Defendant J. Michael Lennon. The biography “captures Mailer in all his sharp complexities and shows us how he self-consciously invented and reinvented himself throughout his lifetime.” J.-Michael Lennon,…