Marilyn (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Mailer
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: New Journalism
- Time of Work: 1926-1962
- Setting: Primarily Los Angeles
- Genres: Nonfiction, New Journalism
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Friendship, Substance abuse, Pain, Drug addiction or addicts, Popular culture, Biography, Photojournalism or photojournalists
Form and Content
Marilyn owes its genesis to photographer Lawrence Schiller, who assembled some sixteen thousand photographs from the files of twenty-four photographers to create a special exhibition titled “Marilyn Monroe: The Legend and the Truth.” It was Schiller who contacted Norman Mailer after this exhibition with the proposal that Mailer write the text for a book featuring the best of these photographs. Mailer originally planned to compose 25,000 words but ended with a text of 90,000 words. Schiller printed 118 photographs, including work by such notables as...
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