Personal life Addams met first wife Barbara Jean Day in late 1943, who purportedly resembled his cartoon character Morticia Addams. The marriage ended eight years later after Addams declined to have children (she later married New Yorker colleague John Hersey, author of the book Hiroshima).
Personal life Addams met first wife Barbara Jean Day in late 1943 who purportedly resembled his cartoon character Morticia Addams The marriage ended eight years later after Addams declined to have children (she later married New Yorker colleague John Hersey author of the book Hiroshima)