Jun 6, 2022
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. Here's a look at 8 books about Marilyn Monroe you must read.
Wikipedia
More than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still one of the most famous people in the world. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated the world.
WN
This book is a spellbinding study of Marilyn Monroe by an American feminist including extracts from Marilyn's own unfinished autobiography and from George Barris who interviewed her just before she died.
Penguin
Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of Marilyn Monroe poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio.
Taylor-Trade-Pub
In this, we are given an intimate, unsparing vision of the woman who became Marilyn Monroe: the child who visits the cinema with her mother; the orphan whose mother is declared mad; the woman who changes her name to become an actress; the fated celebrity, lover, comedienne, muse, and icon.
Fourth-Estate
It is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts―notes to herself, letters, even poems―in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.
Farrar-Straus-and-Giroux
In 1956, fresh from Oxford, Colin Clark worked as a humble ‘gofer’ on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl', the film that disastrously united Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. This is the story of when Clark escorted a Monroe desperate to escape from the pressures of stardom.
HarperPress
Berniece Miracle did not know Marilyn Monroe—but she did know the girl who came before, Norma Jeane. Born seven years apart, the girls were half-sisters who were separated. In her memoir, Berniece reflects on the years that preceded and followed their reunion, showing us a side of Marilyn we haven't seen before.
iUniverse
In this, author Donald H. Wolfe, a former Hollywood screenwriter and film editor examines Marilyn's final weeks and offers startling evidence to support his provocative claim that Marilyn’s alleged suicide was, in fact, a homicide.
William-Morrow-Paperbacks
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