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Norman Mailer, Bert Stern

Marilyn Monroe

Norman Mailer, Bert Stern( )
Author: Mailer, Norman
Photographer: Stern, Bert
ISBN:978-3-8365-1185-8
Publication Date:Dec 2011
Publisher:TASCHEN
Book Format:Other book format
List Price:USD $1300.00
Book Description:

Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with Bert Stern's extraordinary photographs

--widely considered the most intimate ever taken of Monroe--to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of glamour and eroticism for an entire generation. But though she was feted and adored by her public, her private life was that of a little girl lost, desperate to find love and security.

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Book Details
Pages:278
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):18.915 x 22.23 x 5.577 Inches
Book Weight:18.018 Pounds
Author Biography
Mailer, Norman (Author)
Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, N. J. and then moved with his family to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mailer later attended Harvard University and graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering.

Mailer served in the Army during World War II, and later wrote, directed, and acted in motion pictures. He was also a co-founder of the Village Voice and edited Disssent for nine years.

Mailer has written several books including: The Armies of the Night, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a Polk Award; and The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He published his last novel, The Castle in the Forest, in 2007. He died of acute renal failure on November 10, 2007.

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