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[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The Marilyn fan/student will find here one of the most (if not the most) comprehensive list of publications on Marilyn Monroe.  For every book we have further information on, where to purchase, reviews, etc. Click here to see book reviews by Fraser. We will be adding this to more of the books listed as time goes, so be sure to check back often.

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Biographies
Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Vol 1 and Vol 2 -Gary Vitacco-Robles 2014

Marilyn Monroe – Donald Spoto 1993
Marilyn Monroe Private & Undisclosed – Michelle Morgan 2007
Goddess The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe – Anthony Summers 1985

Marilyn Revealed –  Ted Schwarz 2009
Marilyn: The Last Goddess – Jerome Charyn 2009
Marilyn (The Classic & The Biography) – Norman Mailer 1973
Marilyn Monroe Norma Jeane’s Dream – Katherine E. Krohn 1997

Marilyn Monroe – Maurice Zolotow 1960
Marilyn Monroe Revised Edition – Maurice Zolotow 1990
My Story – Marilyn Monroe – Ben Hecht – Foreward by Joshua Greene 2007
My Story – Marilyn Monroe – Ben Hecht – Milton Greene 1974
Joe and Marilyn – Roger Kahn 1986

Norma Jean The Life of Marilyn Monroe – Fred Lawrence Guiles 1969, 1993 softcover
Legend The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe – Fred Lawrence Guiles 1984

The Marilyn Scandal – Sandra Shevey 1987
Marilyn Monroe A Life of the Actress – Carl Rollyson 2013
Marilyn Monroe – Barbara Leaming 1998

Marilyn Monroe – Graham McCann 1988
Marilyn Monroe: una bibliografia – a bibliography – Frederic Cabanas 1992
Marilyn Monroe Pocket Book – Julie Mars 1995

Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe – Pete Martin 1956
Marilyn – William C. Taylor (Spanish) 2000
Marilyn Monroe Pocket Essential – Paul Donnelley 2000
Marilyn Monroe – Javier Cuesta (Spanish) 2006
Marilyn Her Own Story – George Carpozi 1973
The Secret Life of  Marilyn Monroe –  J. Randy Taraborrelli (August 2009 Release)
The Genius and the Goddess – Jeffrey Myers 2010
Marilyn Monroe: L’enfer de la gloire – Frederick Valmont & Christian Dureau 2009
Marilyn in Words Pictures and Music – Richard Havers and Richard Evans 2010
MarilynMonroe: Private and Confidential – Michelle Morgan 2012

Information based Marilyn books
The Marilyn Encyclopedia – Adam Victor 1999

The Unabridged Marilyn A to Z – Randall Riese & Neal Hitchens 1987
The Ultimate Marilyn – Ernest Cunningham 1998
Marilyn People – Ernest Cunningham 2003
Marilyn Handbook – Mike Evans 2004
Marilyn Monroe – Marie Clayton 2004
Images of Marilyn Monroe – Parragon Inc 2007

Marilyn Her Life & Legend – Susan Doll 1990
Marilyn Monroe Cover to Cover – Clark Kidder 1999
Marilyn Monroe Cover to Cover Second Edition – Clark Kidder 2003
Marilyn Monroe Collectibles, Memorabilia Guide – Clark Kidder 1999
The Complete Films of Marilyn Monroe – Ricci & Conway 1990
Blonde Heat – Richard Buskin 2001
Marilyn Monroe Quotes/Trivia – Nicotext 2007
Marilyn Monroe (Book & Cds) – edel CLASSICS GmbH 2007
Marilyn Monroe in the Movies: A Retrospective – Timothy Knight 2010
Circling Marilyn: Text Body Performance – Clara Juncker 2010
Marilyn Monroe 50th Anniversary Edition – Marie Clayton 2012

Special Interest Books
Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? – Pamela Keogh 2010
Fragments – Marilyn Monroe, Bermard Comment, Stanley F. Buchthal 2010
Color Me Marilyn – Emanuel Emanuele 2010
Marilyn Monroe Poems – Lyn Lifshin 1994

My Sex is Ice Cream The Marilyn Monroe Poems – Nellie McClung 1996
Marilyn Monroe: A Life of an Actress – Carl Rollyson, Jr. – 1987
all the avaliable light: a marilyn monroe reader – Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002

The Some Like it Hot Cookbook – Abbeville Press 1996
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe – Sarah Churchill 2004
Marilyn in Art – Roger G. Taylor 2006
Marilyn Monroe 3-D – Frederic Cabanas 2002
The 30 Faces of Marilyn Monroe – Frederic Cabanas 2004
Marilyn in Spain A Life Documented – Frederic Cabanas 2005
Candle in the Wind – Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1974

Marilyn Lives! – Joel Oppenheimer 1981
All About Eve – Sam Staggs 2000
Marilyn’s Men – Jane Ellen Wayne (Dedication to Robert Slatzer) 1992
Marilyn Monroe: The Healing of a Soul – Adrian Finkelstein 2007
They Knew Marilyn Monroe – Les Harding 2012
The Secret Letters: of Marilyn Monroe & Jacqueline Kennedy – Wendy Leigh 2004

Coffee With Marilyn – Yona Zeldis McDonough (Foreward by Gloria Steinem) 2007
Immortal Marilyn: Depiction of an Icon – De Vito John 2006
American Monroe: The Making of a Body Politic – S. Paige Baty 1995
Some Like It Hot: Official 50th Anniversary Companion – Laurence Malson 2009
Marilyn Monroe: Your Personal Fashion Consultant – Michael Feder and Karan Feder 2009
Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood icon was styled by William Travilla  – Andrew Hansford with Karen Homer-2011
Marilyn in Fashion – Christopher Nickons 2012

Marilyn Lived Here
Hometown Girl – Eric Woodard 2004
Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood – Marsha Bellavance-Johnson 1992

Marilyn Addresses – Michelle Finn 1995
Cursum Perficio: Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood Hacienda: The Story of Her Final Months – Gary Vitacco-Robles 2000
Marilyn’s Footsteps – Michelle Morgan 2012

Marilyn Quote Books
Marilyn on Marilyn – Roger G. Taylor 1983

Marilyn In Her Own Words – Neil Grant 1991
Marilyn Monroe Quote Unquote – Janice Anderson 1995
Seductive Sayings: Marilyn Monroe Her Own Words on Sex, Fame, Hollywood and Marilyn – Herb Boyd 1994

Photographers
Marilyn Intimate Exposures – Susan Bernard 2011
Marilyn Monroe – Bert Stern and Norman Mailer 2011
Marilyn August 1953 The Lost LOOK Photos – John Vochun and Brian Wallis 2010
Marilyn – Andre de Dienes, Taschen 80th Birthday Edition 2006

Marilyn Book Set- Andre de Dienes Taschen 2005
Marilyn Mon Amour – Andre de Dienes 1985 & 1993
Andre de Dienes Marilyn – Andre De Dienes & Steve Crist 2011
An Evening with Marilyn – Douglas Kirkland 2002

Marilyn Monroe The Last Sitting, Bert Stern’s Favorite Photos of an American Icon – Bert Stern 2006
Eros Volume One, Number Three – Bert Stern Photographs, Autumn 1962

The Complete Last Sitting – Bert Stern 2000
The Last Sitting – Bert Stern 1982
But That’s Another Story – A Photographic Retrospective of Milton H. Greene 2008
Milton’s Marilyn – Milton H. Greene 1994 large  & 1998 small hard cover version
Marilyn Monroe (Book & CD’s) Milton Greene, edel Classics GmbH 2007

The Birth of Marilyn – Joseph Jasgur 1991
Falling for Marilyn – Jock Carroll 1996
Marilyn Monroe – Eve Arnold 2005
Marilyn Monroe An Appreciation – Eve Arnold 1987

Bernard of Hollywood Marilyn – Susan Bernard 1993
Marilyn The New York Years – Sam Shaw 2004

The Joy of Marilyn – Sam Shaw 1979
Marilyn Among Friends – Sam Shaw & Norman Rosten 1987
Marilyn and Friends – Sam & Larry Shaw 2007
Norma Jean Marilyn Monroe 1945 – Photography by William Carroll 2004

Marilyn Monroe From Beginning to End – Earl Leaf Photographs, Michael Ochs Archives 1997
Marilyn March 1955 – Photographs by Ed Feingersh, Michael Ochs Archives 1990

Marilyn – Ed Feingersh, Michael Ochs Archives (French) 1992
Marilyn in New York Ed Feingersh – Lothar Schrimer 2008
Marilyn Norma Jeane – George Barris, Gloria Steinem 1986
Marilyn Her Life in Her Own Words – George Barris 1993
Finding Marilyn – David Conover 1984
Norma Jean 1945 by William Carroll 2004

Sam Shaw: A Personal Point of View – Lorie Karnath 2011
Marilyn by Magum – Gerry Badger 2012

General Photo & Information books
Remembering Marilyn (LIFE) – Robert Sullivan 2009
Marilyn by Moonlight – Jack Allan 2000

Marilyn An Illustrated History – Sandra Forty 2013
Young Marilyn Becoming the Legend – James Haspiel 1994

Marilyn The Ultimate Look at the Legend – James Haspiel 1991
Marilyn The Ultimate Look at the Legend – James Haspiel 2006
The Unpublished Marilyn – James Haspiel 2000
Marilyn Her Life in Pictures – Martin Howard 2013
The Platinum Fox – Cindy De la Hoz 2007

Marilyn Monroe Her Life in Pictures – James Spada with George Zeno 1982
Marilyn Monroe UPI Photographs – Roger Baker 1990
Marilyn at Twentieth Century Fox – Lawrence Crown 1987
Forever Marilyn – Marie Cahill 1992
Marilyn Monroe A Pictorial Treasury of film Stars- Joan Mellen 1975
Marilyn 35th Anniversary Edition w/ CD – Jay Harrison 1997
The Marilyn Album – Nicki Giles 1991
MarilynMonroe (Movie Icons Series) – F.X Fenney 2006
Marilyn Monroe a never ending dream –  Guus Luijters 1983

Marilyn Monroe – Giuliana Muscio (Spanish) 2004
Marilyn Monroe – Janice Anderson 1983
Unknown Marilyn: Insights into the Life of an Icon – Gebundene Ausgabe 2008
Marilyn Monroe And The Camera – Lothar Schirmer, Foreward by Jane Russell, Interview by Georges Belmont 1989
Marilyn A Life in Pictures – Diana Karanikas Harvey 2002

Marilyn Monroe – John Kobal 1974
Marilyn – Kathy Rooks-Denes 1993
Marilyn Monroe The Life The Myth – Rizzoli 1996
Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures – David Thomson and Anne Verlhac 2007
Marilyn and Friends – Charles-Henri Favrod 2005
Marilyn Monroe: Un hommage photographique – Ward Calhou & Benjamin DeWalt 2008
Marilyn Monroe: Photographs of a Legend – Nick Yapp 2009
Marilyn Monroe Metamorphosis – David Wills 2011
Marilyn – Henry-Jean Servat 2012
Marilyn; NYC 1955 – Peter Mangone, James Danziger 2012

Fiction
Hello Norma Jean – Sue Dolleris

Marilyn’s Mindset – Stuart Coates 2010
Marilyn Monroe Shades of Blonde – Carole Nelson Douglas 1997
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and His Friend Marilyn Monroe – Andrew O’ Hagan 2010
The Immortals – Michael Korda 1992
The Marilyn Diaries – Charles Casillo 1995
Misfits County – Arthur Winfield Knight 2008
The Mmm Girl Marilyn Monroe by Herself – Tara Hanks 2007
Life Among the Cannibals – David Marshall 2009

Norma Jeane’s Wishes in Time – Stuart Coates 2008
What She Knew – KR Dickerson 2008

Personal Accounts of Life & Times with Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe Confidential – Lena Pepitone & William Stadiem 1979

The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe- James E. Dougherty 1976
To Norma Jeane with Love, Jimmie – Jim Dougherty, LC Van Savage 2001
My Sister Marilyn – Berniece Baker Miracle & Mona Rae Miracle 1994
Too Close to the Falls – Catherine Gildiner 1999

Diary of a Lover of Marilyn Monroe – Hans Jorgen Lembourn 1977
Norma Jean My Secret Life With Marilyn Monroe – Ted Jordan 1989
Conversations with Marilyn – W.J. Weatherby 1976
A Different View of Marilyn – Al Carmen Guastafeste 2003
The Prince, The Showgirl and Me – Colin Clark 1996

Marilyn & Me – Susan Strasberg 1992
Marilyn: An Untold Story – Norman Rosten 1973
Marilyn Joe & Me – June DiMaggio & Mary Jane Popp 2006

Inside Marilyn Monroe – John Gilmore 2007
Marilyn Monroe Photographs 1946 – 1962, Text by Truman Capote, Schirmer’s Visual Library 1994
Marilyn and Me – Lawrence Schiller – 2012

Covering Marilyn’s Death
Marilyn A Hollywood Farewell – Leigh Wiener 1990
Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe – Lucy Freeman 1993

The Marilyn Tapes – E.J. Gorman 1995
The Marilyn Conspiracy – Milo Speriglio 1986
The Life & Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe – Robert F. Slatzer 1982
The Marilyn Files – Robert F. Slatzer 1992
The Murder of Marilyn Monroe – Leonore Canevari, Jeanette van Wyhe, Christian Dimas, Rachel Dimas 1992
Crypt 33 – Adela Gregory & Milo Speriglio 1993
Marilyn The Last Take – Peter Harry Brown & Patte B. Barham 1992
The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe – Frank A. Capell 1964
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe (and British version) The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe – Donald Wolfe 1998
Marilyn The Last 24 Hours – Allan Silverman 1999
The DD Group – David Marshall 2005
Marilyn Monroe Murder by Consent: A Pyschologist’s Journey with Death – Jack V. Hattem 2007

Marilyn Monroe: The FBI Files – Federal Bureau of Investigation & Marilyn Monroe 2007
Misplaced Loyalties: The Assassinations of Marilyn Monroe & the Kennedy Brothers – Victor E. Justice 2005
Marilyn’s Last Words: Her Secret Tapes & Mysterious Death (and British version) Victim: The Secret Tapes of Marilyn
Monroe – Matthew Smith 2004
Who Killed Marilyn Monroe (PI Grace Smith Investigations) – Liz Evans 2002
Marilyn Monroe: The FBI Files (Moments of History) – Tim Coates 2003
The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe The Shocking True Story – Keith Badman 2010

Her Films
Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond 1959 paper back

Some Like It Hot – Alison Castle 2010
The Misfits – Arthur Miller 1961
The Misfits – Arthur Miller & Serge Toubiana 2000
Bus Stop – William Inge 1956
The Films of Marilyn Monroe – Conway and Ricci 1964

Auction/Collection books of Marilyn’s Personal Property
Marilyn Monroe The Personal Archives – Cindy De La Hoz 2010
The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe – Christies 1999

Marilyn The Dream – Maite Minguez Ricart 2002
MM-Die Ikone Marilyn Monroe – Snejanka Bauer 2010
The Property from the Estate of Marilyn Monroe – Julien’s June 4th, 2005

Marilyn Monroe The Red Velvet Images – Butterfields Los Angeles, Thursday, March 22, 2001
Marilyn Monroe The Halcyon Gallery Catalog – Eve Arnold 2005
The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe: The Berniece & Mona Miracle Collection – Sotheby’s Auction, March 1, 2001
The Marilyn Monroe Treasures – Jenna Glatzer 2008
MM Personal: The Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe – Lois Banner, Mark Anderson 2011
Marilyn – Stefania Ricc & Sergio Risaliti 2012

Marilyn’s Bio’s in Comic Book Form
Marilyn Monroe – Steven Spire 1991

Son of Celluloid – Clive Barker 1991
The Marilyn Monroe Conspiracy – Todd Loren 1991
Monroe & DiMaggio – Alfonso Alfonso 1992
Marilyn Monroe: Suicide or Murder? – Jay Sanford 1993
Tragic Goddess: Marilyn Monroe – Adam Post 1995[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]