Marilyn: A Biography

by Norman Mailer

Overview

An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Mailer, the winner of two Pullitzer Prizes, was the first writer to explore the relationship between Monroe and Bobby Kennedy. When first published, this book was the subject of Time and Life Magazine cover stories, was on the New York Times Bestseller List and became a full selection of the Book of the Month Club.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011468193
Publisher:	Lawrence Schiller
Publication date:	07/25/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	362 KB

About the Author

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, producing more than 30 books over his writing career, including an acclaimed account of the fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. He is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction (The Executioner's Song) and nonfiction (The Armies of the Night, for which he pioneered a new type of creative nonfiction).

Hometown:

Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York, New York

Date of Birth:

January 31, 1923

Date of Death:

November 10, 2007

Place of Birth:

Long Branch, New Jersey

Education:

B.S., Harvard University, 1943; Sorbonne, Paris, 1947-48