Marilyn

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<p>'Genius'<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>In 1973, Norman Mailer published<i>Marilyn</i>, 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<i>The Naked and the Dead</i>. Yet, until now, it has never been made available in an accessible mass-market paperback edition.</p><p>This is one of America's greatest writers taking on the legend of one of Hollywood's greatest stars.</p>

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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,<i>The Naked and the Dead</i>, 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<i>The Armies of the Night</i>; the second in 1979 with<i>The Executioner's Song</i>. He was once acclaimed by poet Robert Lowell as 'the best journalist in America'. Mailer died in 2007.

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