Book description
'Genius' The New York Times
In 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated
in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully
illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed -
and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any
of his other works except The Naked and the Dead. Yet, until
now, it has never been made available in an accessible mass-market
paperback edition.
This is one of America's greatest writers taking on the legend of
one of Hollywood's greatest stars.
Norman Mailer was born in New Jersey in 1923 and then reared in
Brooklyn. He began writing fiction before he graduated from Harvard
University. His first major work,
The Naked and the Dead
, written in 1948, was received with great popular and critical acclaim.
Mailer went on to win the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions, the first in
1968 with
The Armies of the Night
; the second in 1979 with
The Executioner's Song
. He was once acclaimed by poet Robert Lowell as 'the best journalist in
America'. Mailer died in 2007.
