Yes, he sure did.
Nice and quick by Irene. She knows. 1960 there was a party. At 5am Mailer stabbed Adele Morales Mailer five times. He got her in the stomach and back. It took three hours to get her to hospital. Luckily and let me pay tribute to the unsung heroes in this world- those emergency medical people- I do not know one detail about their struggle with death though.
They must have saved that b*****d Mailer also.
Question though rhetorical. Does genius excuse the vile unconscionable treatment of human beings?.
Old PL thinks not.