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'No woman was more patronized and demeaned than Marilyn Monroe. With wit, warmth and scholarly empathy, Gail Crowther's wonderful book reconstructs not just her library, but her life. Marilyn and Her Books is both a penetrating analysis of her literary compulsions and a kind of Lynchian diorama: a shimmering, unsettling portrait which reminds us that reading, like Hollywood, is a dream-state. Just when we thought we could not love Marilyn more, Crowther deepens and complicates our devotion, allowing us to see her clearly at last - and lay her to rest with the respect she has always deserved. I loved it' * John O’Connell, author of Bowie’s Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life *

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Crowther is a writer, researcher, and academic. She is the author of Dorothy Parker in Hollywood, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton, The Haunted Reader & Sylvia Plath, and the coauthor of Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning and These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Gail divides her time between the North of England and London. As a feminist vegan, she engages with politics concerning gender, power, and animal rights.

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