Norman Mailer, "Marilyn: A Biography" (Grossef & Dunlap, 1973). 

Marilyn: A Biography (1973) by Norman Mailer is a highly stylized, controversial portrait of Marilyn Monroe that blends biography, cultural critique, and Mailer’s own speculative psychology. Rather than offering a strictly factual or chronological account, Mailer approaches Monroe as a mythic figure shaped—and ultimately consumed—by American celebrity culture, power, and voyeurism. His prose is lyrical, provocative, and often conjectural, attributing symbolic meaning to Monroe’s relationships, sexuality, and inner life in ways that drew both acclaim for their insight and criticism for their lack of evidentiary rigor. The book is less a conventional biography than an interpretive meditation, revealing as much about Mailer’s ideas on fame, gender, and America as it does about Monroe herself.

Size: 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. 

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