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- Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed Michelle Morgan.
- Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Donald Spoto.
- Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words George Barris.
- Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters Marilyn Monroe.
May 3, 2023 · Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto Spoto’s biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe’s diaries, letters, and other personal and revealing documents.
Sep 23, 2022 · Marilyn: A Biography, by Norman Mailer. $22. Norman Mailer’s 1973 coffee-table book on Monroe isn’t essential reading. But it’s an important cultural artifact in understanding how...
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- ‘Marilyn: Norma Jeane’ by Gloria Steinem. From the feminist icon and activist Gloria Steinem comes this complex portrait of Marilyn Monroe, one of the first that can be credited with changing the public perception of the historic actor and model.
- ‘Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe’ by Fred Lawrence Guiles. Norman Mailer cites Fred Lawrence Guiles as the “chief source of fact about Marilyn,” someone whose entire life and history is often shrouded in mystery and rumor.
- ‘My Story’ by Marilyn Monroe. Alongside Ben Hecht, Marilyn Monroe tells the story of her own life for the first time in this autobiography, which contains stories dating back all the way to her childhood as an orphan in Los Angeles.
- ‘MM Personal – From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe’ by Lois Banner. Paging through Lois Banner’s thoughtful curation in “MM – Personal” feels like you’re wading through the cabinets, drawers and closets of the historic actor and model yourself.
- Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox by Lois Banner. Few have done more revelatory and insightful research into Monroe's life as Lois Banner, a historian and leading figure in the field of women's history.
- Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy by Elizabeth Winder. Though a child of Los Angeles and a legend of Hollywood, Monroe likely found the most solace and stability in her life during her year spent living in New York City.
- My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark. The source material for a 2011 Marilyn biopic (starring Michelle Williams), this is a first-hand account of one person's experience in Monroe's orbit.
- The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist by Michelle Morgan. Though many accounts would have use see Monroe as an entirely helpless figure abused by the power brokers in her life, she was far smarter and savvier than biographers often give her credit for.
Marilyn Monroe (/ ˈ m æ r ə l ɪ n m ə n ˈ r oʊ /; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic " blonde bombshell " characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution .
1 day ago · Marilyn Monroe (born June 1, 1926, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died August 5, 1962, Los Angeles) was an American actress who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful films during the 1950s, and is considered a pop culture icon.
