Nevada State Library and Archives

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100 years since Marilyn Monroe was born!

Happy birthday, Norma Jean Mortenson, born 100 years ago. For many, the real woman behind the Marilyn Monroe persona becomes more obscured as her fame endures, though writers have tried to separate iconography from identity and cultural legacy from public lore. Among the more than 50 books on Monroe in the NLS collection is Gloria Steinem’s "Marilyn (DB25894)," in which the feminist writer/activist offers her own point of view on the life of the vulnerable film actress and s*x goddess, drawing on Monroe's unpublished memoirs. In "Blonde: A Novel (DB50255)," Joyce Carol Oates mixes fiction and biography, retelling the star's childhood in Los Angeles, her marriages to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, and her major roles in movies. James Patterson and Imogen Edwards-Jones in "The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe (DB133690)" create a true-crime thriller dramatizing the actress’ last days as she attends a party with Frank Sinatra, argues with U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and confesses her loneliness to her psychiatrist. In "The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe (DB73080),” Jeffrey Meyers traces the couple's family backgrounds and their marriage, showing Monroe's role as Miller's muse but positing that her psychological problems and feelings of inadequacy led to their divorce after five years.
For help discovering more books about Monroe, whether fiction or nonfiction, reach out to your network reader advisor, www.loc.gov/nls/find-your-library?loclr=fbnls.
[Image: Likeness of Marilyn Monroe at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Hollywood, 2013. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.]

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