Of Women and Their Elegance (Ladies' Home Journal)
An advance excerpt from Of Women and Their Elegance in the Ladies' Home Journal, on Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller, framed by Lenore Hershey's note on Mailer's 'fantasy autobiography.'
“Norman Mailer Writes a New ‘Fantasy Autobiography’ of Marilyn Monroe: Of Women and Their Elegance,” an advance excerpt in the Ladies’ Home Journal (September 1980) from Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15), drawn from the passages on Monroe‘s marriage to Arthur Miller. Lenore Hershey’s “Editor’s Diary: Mailer and Marilyn” quotes Mailer on why he wrote a “fantasy autobiography”: “I felt an obvious identity with her because she came out of nothing and achieved such notoriety. In a less embattled way, the same is true of me.”
Related pages
- Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15) | Marilyn Monroe | 1980
- Marilyn: A Biography (73.30) | Before the Literary Bar (80.14)