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Like her fine art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a robust superstar and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party female with a deeply religious side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No past biographer has acknowledged - much less attempted to assess - the majority of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. Since Marilyn's death in August of 1962, the desire for foods for information about her has been insatiable. Biographies of Marilyn abound, and whether these books are sensational or flawed, Marilyn's fans have always come out in best-selling volumes. This time around, with Lois Banner's revelations, the fans won't be disappointed. This is no retread of recycled material. Among the founders of the field of women's background, Banner will uncover Marilyn Monroe in the manner that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. While researching, Banner's qualifications opened entrance doors. She gained access to Marilyn intimates who hadn't spoken to other biographers, and also to private material unseen, ignored, or misinterpreted by her predecessors. With new details about Marilyn's childhood foster homes, her erotic mistreatment, her multiple relationships, her affairs, and her untimely death at the age of 36, this is, at last, the nuanced biography Marilyn fans have been waiting for.
