![]() ![]() And yet, the public image of a breezy, bubbly blonde endures as a caricature of Monroe’s character, standing in stark contrast with whatever deep-seated demons led her to take her own life.īut her private poetry - fragmentary, poem-like texts scribbled in notebooks and on loose-leaf paper, published for the first time in Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters ( public library) - reveals a complex, sensitive being who peered deeply into her own psyche and thought intensely about the world and other people. ![]() While she wasn’t shooting, she was taking literature and history night classes at UCLA. Her personal library contained four hundred books, including classics like Dostoyevsky and Milton, and modern staples like Hemingway and Kerouac. She took great pains to be photographed reading or holding a book - insistence born not out of vain affectation but of a genuine love of literature. Did you ever begin Ulysses? Did you ever finish it? Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926–August 5, 1962) did both. ![]()
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