The updated bestselling biography--based on over six hundred
interviews--and the inspiration for the Netflix documentary, The
Mystery of Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and
legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked to famous men from
Joe DiMaggio to Arthur Miller to John F. Kennedy. But her tragic death
at a young age, under suspicious circumstances, left behind a mystery
that remains unsolved to this day.
Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people, laying bare
the truths--sometimes funny, often sad--about this brilliant, troubled
woman. The first to gain access to the files of Monroe's last
psychiatrist, Summers uses the documents to explain her tangled psyche
and her dangerous addiction to medications. He establishes, after years
of mere rumor, that President Kennedy and his brother Robert were both
intimately involved with Monroe in life--and in covering up the
circumstances of her death.
Written and updated by a Pulitzer Prize nominee who has authored works
on JFK, J. Edgar Hoover, and the 9/11 attacks, this investigation of an
iconic star's brief life and early death is "remarkable. . . . The ghost
of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages" (The New York Times).
Netflix's The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe will cement this work as the
definitive biography of the unforgettable woman.
