Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after
her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe
(1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early
adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her
marriage to Joe DiMaggio. In this intimate account of a very public life, she
tells of her first (non-consensual) sexual experience, her romance with the
Yankee Clipper, and her prescient vision of herself as the kind of girl they
found dead in the hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her
hand. The