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Marilyn - A Biography by Norman Mailer Signed Limited Edition MONROE, Marilyn. Marilyn a Biography by Norman Mailer. Pictures by the world's foremost photographers. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Quarto (10 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches; 267 x 235 mm.). [2, signed leaf, verso blank], [1]-270, [1], [1, blank], pp. Photographic illustrations throughout, many in full color. Publisher's padded silk, front cover with title in blind, spine lettered in blank, marbled endpapers. A fine copy. Housed in the publisher's black cloth clamshell case, inset photograph on front panel, marbled paper lining, near fine. A wonderful photo-biography of the late Marilyn Monroe issued more than a decade following her suicide. Among "the world's foremost photographers" represented here: Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, and Eve Arnold. Marilyn Monroe; born Norma Jeane Mortenson (1926-1962) was an American actress, model and singer. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2024) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a pop culture icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the sixth-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Nachem Malech Mailer (1923-2007) known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had eleven best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II. Mailer's 1973 biography of Monroe (usually designated Marilyn: A Biography) was not approached as a traditional biography. Mailer read the available biographies, watched Monroe's films, and looked at photographs of Monroe; for the rest of it, Mailer stated, "I speculated.".