FRAGMENTS: MARILYN MONROE’S WRITING TO BE PUBLISHED THIS FALL
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Musings about life, literature and other rarely seen writing by MARILYN MONROE will be published this fall.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX announced today that FRAGMENTS would come out in October. Editor Courtney Hodell said the book would include poems, photographs, reflections on third husband ARTHUR MILLER and other men in her life, as well as references to works by JAMES JOYCE, SAMUEL BECKETT and numerous other authors.
“I think the book will show that she was a thoughtful person with a real interior life,” Ms. Hodell commented.
“She was a great reader and someone with real writing flair. There are fragments of poetry that are really quite beautiful – lines that stop you in your tracks.”
The book features a long essay about the actor’s first husband James Dougherty, notes about performance and the roles she was working on, lists of resolutions and a letter to acting coach LEE STRASBERG. MARILYN wrote on everything from spiral bound notebooks to stationery from the Waldorf Astoria.
The writings date from 1943, when she was a teenager, to near the end of her life. MARILYN MONROE was found dead in her Los Angeles home in 1962 at age 36.
The book was commissioned by ANNA STRASBERG, LEE STRASBERG’S widow and the manager of Ms. Monroe’s estate.
