She stole up the long drive to the Lahore house of the retired civil servant and landlord K. K. Harouni, bearing in her lacquered fingers a letterofintroduction from, of all people, his estranged wife.
Wolcott came to New York, in the fall of 1972, because Norman Mailer liked an article he had published in his college paper the article, not coincidentally, was about Norman Mailer and had written a letterofintroduction to Daniel Wolf, who then edited the Village Voice.