Marilyn Monroe was Hollywood's archetypal dumb blonde. She was also one smart cookie. That's the twist in Lois Banner's richly researched biography "Marilyn: the Passion and the Paradox." The passion ...
The book features never-before-seen photos of Monroe by Bruno Bernard — the photographer behind her iconic subway grate snap ...
No student of biography – and certainly no devotee of Marilyn Monroe biographies – should be without “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe” (Metropolitan Books, 384 pages, $26). Nevertheless, caveat ...
When I was writing my biography of Marilyn Monroe, several editors deemed her a shopworn subject. This was in the 1980s. They, of course, misunderstood Monroe’s perennial place in the American ...