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During the 1950s, through John Hodiak, Gilmore sustained an acquaintanceship with Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood, [2] then in New York City, where Gilmore was involved with the Actors Studio, transcribing the lectures of Lee Strasberg into book form.
Norman Mailer's 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe (usually designated Marilyn: A Biography) [a] was a large-format book of glamor photographs of Monroe for which Mailer supplied the text. Originally hired to write an introduction by Lawrence Schiller , who put the book package together, Mailer expanded the introduction into a long essay.
Marilyn Monroe (/ ˈ m æ r ə l ɪ n m ə n ˈ r oʊ / MARR-ə-lin mən-ROH; 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.
Since Marilyn Monroe’s death, there has been no shortage of biographies, documentaries, docu-series, coffee table books, oral histories, podcasts and art created in her memory — all, in their ...
Blonde is a 2000 biographical fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates that presents a fictionalized take on the life of American actress Marilyn Monroe. Oates insists that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (2001) and the National Book Award (2000). [1]
Now, Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold, a newly revised and redesigned edition of the photographer’s 1987 book Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, spotlights more than 100 of her pictures of the actress.
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Marilyn: Norma Jean is a biography of Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Baker) by feminist Gloria Steinem.Published in 1988, the book features pictures by photographer George Barris and thus evokes Norman Mailer's 1973 controversial biography Marilyn that also essentially is a long essay on Monroe added to a book of photographs.