Church Mailer, Norris b. January 31, 1949 d. November 21, 2010 Literary Figure. A model, author, and painter, she is probably best known as the sixth and last wife of author Norman Mailer. Born Barbara Jean Davis, she was raised in poverty in rural Arkansas from age two, won her first beauty contest at three, and later attended Arkansas Polytechnic College. She was a high school art teacher and recently divorced single mother when she met Mailer at a Russellville, Arkansas book signing in 1975. Following a stint as his research assistant, she moved to New...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
MacMillan, Donald b. November 10, 1874 d. September 7, 1970 Explorer. Born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was an explorer, sailor and researcher, who made over 30 pioneering expeditions to the Artic. After graduating from Bowdoin College with a degree in geology in 1898, he taught at various colleges before taking his first journey to the North Pole in 1908. In 1913, he organized his own Arctic expedition to Greenland, as the Crocker Land Expedition, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. Because of heavy ice conditions, the expedition...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
MacMillan, Miriam b. June 13, 1905 d. August 18, 1987 Explorer. Born Miriam Look in Massachusetts, together with her husband Donald Macmillan she was an explorer, sailor and researcher, who made pioneering expeditions to the Artic. In 1935, she married Donald Macmillan and together they made exploratory work in the Artic circle. They made repeated trips northward, surveying, mapping unknown land and water, collecting zoological and geological specimens, studying Eskimo life, language and establishing a school for Eskimo children in Labrador...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
Mailer, Norman b. January 31, 1923 d. November 10, 2007 Author. Considered one of America's outstanding writers of the 20th Century, his work often dealt with the social and political upheavals of his times. He won Pulitzer Prizes for "The Armies of the Night" (1969) and "The Executioner's Song" (1980). Born in Long Branch, New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New Yorl City, New York, after graduating from Harvard University with an engineering science degree, he pursued his goal of writing. His first novel, "The Naked and the Dead" (1948), was...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.) Cause of death: Renal failure Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
b. January 31, 1949 d. November 21, 2010
