1960 Press Photo Novelist Norman Mailer booked in stabbing. - now21293

Norman Mailer, 37, author of the best seller "The Naked and the Dead," leans on desk in New York's 100th Street police station last night as he is booked on a charge of stabbing his wife, Adele, 35, during a party in their West Side apartment early Sunday.

Photo is dated 1960.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.