'It's my feeling that she looked forward to her tomorrows,' said Marilyn's housekeeper, the last person to see her alive. But now we may be in a position to say that Marilyn Monroe's tomorrows have stretched beyond any known horizon, becoming one of the publishing world's core subjects. More than six hundred books have been produced about the late movie star; that's more books than you'll find on Florence Nightingale, Princess Diana, Boadicea and Julia Roberts put together. So what kind of story is a story that can never be told enough?

LRB 8 July 2004 | PDF Download