Editing Mickey Spillane (section)

==Personal life==
In 1945, Mickey met and married Mary Ann Pearce. They had four children, Caroline, Kathy, Michael, and Ward. Their marriage ended in 1962.

In November 1965, he married his second wife, [[nightclub singer]] Sherri Malinou. The marriage ended in divorce (and a lawsuit) in 1983.

Spillane shared his waterfront house in [[Murrells Inlet]] with his third wife, Jane Rogers Johnson, and her two daughters, Jennifer and Margaret Johnson. They married in October 1983.

In the 1960s, Spillane became a friend of the novelist [[Ayn Rand]]. Despite their apparent differences, Rand admired Spillane's literary style, and Spillane became, as he described it, a "fan" of Rand's work.<ref>McConnell, Scott, ed., "Mickey Spillane", ''100 Voices: an Oral History of Ayn Rand'', 2010, New American Library, pp. 232-239.</ref>  Later in his life, Spillane became an active [[Jehovah's Witness]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071700990.html |title=Mickey Spillane; Tough-Guy Writer Of Mike Hammer Detective Mysteries |author=Adam Bernstein |date=July 18, 2006 |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=December 19, 2012}}</ref>

In 1989, [[Hurricane Hugo]] ravaged his Murrells Inlet house to such a degree it had to be almost entirely reconstructed. A television interview showed Spillane standing in the ruins of his house.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}