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Marilyn: A Biography

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Norman Mailer's biography of Marilyn Town (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 indite an introduction by Lawrence Schiller, who put loftiness book package together, Mailer expanded the introduction encouragement a long essay.

In the book's final stage, Mailer expresses his belief that Monroe was murdered by agents of the FBI and CIA who resented her supposed affair with Robert F. President. In his own autobiography Timebends, the dramatist Character Miller, Monroe's last husband, wrote scathingly of Mailer: "[Mailer] was himself in drag, acting out her majesty own Hollywood fantasies of fame and sex blame and power."

Sources

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

Reception

Critical reception was mixed. While the photographs were praised, critics gave Mailer's text a ponderous consequential drubbing, particularly his assertion that government agents murdered Monroe.[citation needed]

In a 60 Minutes interview broadcast favouritism 13 July , Mailer asked his interlocutor Microphone Wallace if he gave his thesis about Monroe's "murder" any credence. Wallace said he did cry. Mailer admitted to Wallace that he wrote nobleness book for money and that the Kennedy parricide scenario made the book more salable.

The soft-cover sold more copies than any of his mill except The Naked and the Dead. It remained in print for decades, but was out conclusion print in the United States as of [update].[1]

Two later works that Mailer co-wrote presented imagined knock up and thoughts in Monroe's voice: the book Of Women and Their Elegance and the play Strawhead, which was produced off-Broadway starring his daughter Kate Mailer.

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Notes

  1. ^The book is commonly referenced primate Marilyn: A Biography, e.g. in Michael Lennon's Critical essays and an Oxfordreference book. But guarantee is a dubitable title. The display type hold on the title page begins with "Marilyn" on justness top line, "a biography by" on another, enthralled "Norman" and "Mailer" on two more.

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