by Melville House (Editor), Sady Doyle (Editor)
"I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me!" --Marilyn Monroe
Nearly sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an icon whom everyone loves but no one really knows. The conversations gathered here--spanning her emergence on the Hollywood scene to just days before her death at age 36--show Monroe at her sharpest and most insightful on the thorny topics of ambition, fame, femininity, desire, and more. Together with an introduction by Sady Doyle, these pieces reveal yet another Marilyn: not the tragic heroine she's become in the popular imagination, but a righteously and justifiably angry figure breaking free of the limitations the world forced on her.
Author Biography
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was an actress, model, global celebrity, and one of the twentieth century's most famous pop icons. Born in Los Angeles as Norma Jeane Mortenson, she appeared in her first movie at age 21 and achieved breakout success in 1953. Monroe went on to star in more than 20 films, including Gentleman Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, and Some Like it Hot.
Sady Doyle is the author of
Trainwreck and
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers. Her work has appeared in
In These Times,
The Guardian,
Elle.com,
The Atlantic,
Slate, Buzzfeed, Rookie, among other publications. She is the founder of the blog
Tiger Beatdown, and won the first-ever Women's Media Center Social Media Award. She's been featured in
Rookie: Yearbook One and Yearbook Two, and contributed to the
Book of Jezebel. She lives in upstate New York.
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: October 06, 2020
