Marilyn a biography

1973 book

Norman Mailer's 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe (usually designated Marilyn: A Biography)^[a] was a large-format book of beauty photographs of Monroe for which Mailer supplied the text. To begin with hired to write an curtain-raiser by Lawrence Schiller, who outline the book package together, Writer expanded the introduction into organized long essay.

In the book's final chapter, Mailer expresses diadem belief that Monroe was murdered by agents of the Counter-espionage and CIA who resented have a lot to do with supposed affair with Robert Oppressor. Kennedy. In his own 1987 autobiography Timebends, the dramatist President Miller, Monroe's last husband, wrote scathingly of Mailer: "[Mailer] was himself in drag, acting breather his own Hollywood fantasies always fame and sex unlimited take power."

Sources

Mailer used the biographies Marilyn Monroe (Maurice Zolotow, 1960), Marilyn: An Untold Story (Norman Rosten, 1967) and - Norma Jean: The life of Marilyn Monroe (Fred Lawrence Guiles, 1969) as sources.

Reception

Critical reception was mixed. While the photographs were praised, critics gave Mailer's contents a critical drubbing, particularly authority assertion that government agents murdered Monroe.^{[citation needed]}

In a 60 Minutes interview broadcast on 13 July 1973, Mailer asked his questioner Mike Wallace if he gave his thesis about Monroe's "murder" any credence.

Wallace said inaccuracy did not. Mailer admitted turn into Wallace that he wrote distinction book for money and go wool-gathering the Kennedy murder scenario complete the book more salable.

The book sold more copies overrun any of his works neglect The Naked and the Dead. It remained in print expend decades, but was out racket print in the United States as of 2011^[update].^[1]

Two later expression that Mailer co-wrote presented hypothetical words and thoughts in Monroe's voice: the 1980 book Of Women and Their Elegance gift the 1986 play Strawhead, which was produced off-Broadway starring sovereign daughter Kate Mailer.

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