Marilyn Monroe: Today News about Marilyn Monroe in this article. Norma Jean Mortenson was born this day in 1926 here in Los Angeles, she held a difficult childhood and become screen Marilyn Monroe.
Although she often played blond bimbos, Monroe was quite a reader. There's a photograph of Monroe reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce in what looks like down time during a playground photo shoot. Of course, since its Marilyn, she's wearing a bathing suit. Such is the price of pinup-dom.
When she died in 1962, Marilyn Monroe's library included "The Fall" by Albert Camus; a book of lectures by J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb; stories by Chekhov; Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"; Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio"; two books by Theodore Dreiser; three books by Bertrand Russell; lots of plays; "Moses and Monotheism" by Sigmund Freud; and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Those are all part of Marilyn Monroe's library as cataloged by volunteers on the website LibraryThing.
In 2010, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published a book of writings by Monroe, "Fragments:. Poems, private notes, and lyrics by Marilyn Monroe" In our study, Richard Schickel noted that the book shows how Monroe "became a avid reader of serious literature. "
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