His sixth and very last spouse, whom he married in 1980, was Norris Church Mailer (born Barbara Jean Davis, 1949-2010), an artwork trainer. Mailer raised and informally adopted Matthew Norris, Church's son by her first partner, Larry Norris. In 2008, The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony, a non-income corporation for academic needs, was set up to honor Norman Mailer. Harvard University, Norman Mailer's alma mater.