玛丽莲与她的书：梦露的文学人生Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn MonroeGail Crowther

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books

Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 26, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1668098288

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1668098288

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

为纪念玛丽莲·梦露诞辰一百周年，并得到梦露遗产管理委员会的全力支持，本书由《丽兹酒店的三个马提尼下午》和《好莱坞的多萝西·帕克》的作者撰写，深入探讨了这位好莱坞偶像兼女演员的文学生活。

远离好莱坞片场的聚光灯和媒体的闪光灯，玛丽莲·梦露是一位热爱阅读的作家。她与作家的交往远不止于阅读纸上的文字。她曾与美国著名的剧作家之一阿瑟·米勒有过一段短暂的婚姻，并结识了许多与米勒文学圈相关的作家。但她也结识了许多与米勒无关的作家，其中许多人都是她的影迷，渴望与她见面。

盖尔·克劳瑟通过深入研究，探究了玛丽莲·梦露的私人藏书，并讲述了一些与她会面的趣事，例如她与雪莉·温特斯在西好莱坞合租公寓时，她们招待了迪伦·托马斯和克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德小酌（很可能喝了不少），之后梦露安排托马斯与他儿时的偶像查理·卓别林见面。又比如，《生活》杂志安排梦露在日落塔酒店接受伊迪丝·西特韦尔夫人的采访，西特韦尔夫人被梦露的才智深深吸引。

《玛丽莲和她的书：玛丽莲·梦露的文学人生》描绘了这位银幕传奇的知识人生，揭示了梦露如何在高中辍学后，开启了一段令人印象深刻且富有进取心的自学之路，她求知若渴，如饥似渴地阅读书籍。她的私人藏书也反映了她这种求知若渴的精神。

2026年，在她诞辰一百周年之际，这本书展现了玛丽莲·梦露作为读者的一面。因为在她生命的尽头，她所珍视的并非珠宝、皮草、鞋子或华服，而是书籍。

Timed to the hundredth birthday of Marilyn Monroe, and with the full cooperation of the Monroe estate, comes an investigation into the literary life of the Hollywood icon and actress, from the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz and Dorothy Parker in Hollywood.

Far from the spotlights of the Hollywood film sets and the flashbulbs of the press, Marilyn Monroe was a great reader and lover of books. Her association with writers did not stop at reading their words on the page. She was, of course, briefly married to one of America’s best-known playwrights, Arthur Miller, and met a number of other writers who moved in his literary world. But she also met authors independently of Miller, many of whom were fans of her films and keen to meet her.

Through her deep research, Gail Crowther delves into Marilyn’s personal book collection and recounts some of these meetings, like when she shared an apartment with Shelley Winters in West Hollywood, where they entertained Dylan Thomas and Christopher Isherwood for drinks (probably several drinks), after which Monroe arranged for Thomas to meet his childhood hero, Charlie Chaplin. Or when Life magazine arranged for Monroe to be interviewed by Dame Edith Sitwell at the Sunset Tower Hotel, and Sitwell was both charmed and blown away by Monroe’s intelligence.

Marilyn And Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe charts the intellectual life of a screen legend, revealing how Monroe, who left high school before graduation, embarked on an impressive and progressive program of self-education, hungry for knowledge and devouring books as an active and engaged reader. Her personal library reflects this inquiring mind.

In 2026, for her centenary, this book showcases Marilyn Monroe the reader. Because, at the end of her life, it was not her jewels or her furs, shoes, or dresses that she cared about. It was her books.

作者简介

盖尔·克劳瑟博士是一位作家、研究员和学者。她是《好莱坞的多萝西·帕克》、《丽兹酒店的三个马提尼下午：西尔维娅·普拉斯与安妮·塞克斯顿的反叛》、《幽灵读者与西尔维娅·普拉斯》的作者，也是《德文郡的西尔维娅·普拉斯：一年的转折》和《这些幽灵般的档案：西尔维娅·普拉斯的发掘》的合著者。盖尔的日常生活主要在英格兰北部和伦敦两地度过。

Dr. Gail 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.