Marilyn

1986BiographyMotion picture actors and actressesMoving-picture actors and actressesMonroe, marilyn, 1926-1962New York Times reviewed

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Using the last photographs taken before Marilyn Monroe's death, Gloria Steinem completes the project the actress and the photographer were working on: a book to "set the record straight."

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BiographyMotion picture actors and actressesMoving-picture actors and actressesMonroe, marilyn, 1926-1962New York Times reviewed

First published 1986

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Setting

United States

About the author

Gloria Steinem

1934

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. A prominent writer and key counterculture era political figure, Steinem has founded many organizations and projects and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. She was a columnist for New York magazine and co-founded Ms. magazine. In 1969, she published an article, " After Black Power, Women's Liberation", which, along with her early support of abortion rights, catapulted her to national fame as a feminist leader.