What are the best books on Marilyn?
I can only give my personal opinion on this question, but I try to be as objective as I can when answering. There are many, many books out there on Marilyn, and all of them have good points and bad points. The best thing to do is to take the good out of each book you read and discard the bad. In time you will form your own picture of Marilyn…which is one of the amazing things about her – no two fans see her as exactly the same person. Although this list is in no way complete, I highly recommend the following books: Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers – This is the book the hooked me – a good all-around biography, well researched. A good book for Kennedy theorists. WARNING: This book contains a post-mortem phot of Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe: A Biography by Donald Spoto – another well-written biography that offers an interesting (non-Kennedy!) theory on Marilyn’s death. Marilyn: The Last Take by Peter Brown and Patte Barham – Focuses on the last four months of M