Marilyn & Me (14 page)
Authors: Lawrence Schiller
Photographs of Marilyn Monroe: © 1960 by Lawrence Schiller. All rights reserved.
Photographs of Marilyn Monroe: © 1962 by Lawrence Schiller and William Read Woodfield. All rights reserved.
Photographs of Marilyn Monroe and additional historical photographs: © 1962 by Lawrence Schiller. All rights reserved.
Photographs of Marilyn Monroe: © 1971, 1972, 1973, 1994, and 2007 by Lawrence Schiller, Alskog Inc., The New Ingot Company, and Polaris Communications Inc. All rights reserved.
A special thanks to Hugh Hefner for his personal contribution to the photographic archives of Lawrence Schiller, and to Gary Cole, Lee Froehlich, and Kevin Craig of
Playboy
for their assistance in making some of the 1962 images of Marilyn, taken by Lawrence Schiller, available for this work.
An appreciation to William Read Woodfield for his initial contribution to the publication of the Marilyn Monroe photographs in 1962.
ALSO BY LAWRENCE SCHILLER
Into the Mirror
Cape May Court House
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
American Tragedy
(with James Willwerth)
LSD
(with Richard Alpert and Sidney Cohen)
ADDITIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Oswald’s Tale
(by Norman Mailer)
The Executioner’s Song
(by Norman Mailer)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce
(by Albert Goldman)
The Scavengers and Critics
(by Richard Warren Lewis)
Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist for
Life
,
Newsweek
, and
Paris Match
, among other periodicals, photographing some of the most iconic figures of the 1960s, from Marilyn Monroe to Lee Harvey Oswald to Robert F. Kennedy; from Ali and Foreman to Redford and Newman. The author of four
New York Times
bestselling books, including
American Tragedy
, his many collaborations include
The Executioner’s Song
, Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book. He has also directed and produced motion pictures and television miniseries, which have garnered an Oscar and seven Emmys. Schiller has been a consultant to NBC News and has written for
The New Yorker
,
The Daily Beast
, and other publications. In 2008 he cofounded the Norman Mailer Center and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He has five children and five grandchildren, and lives in New York and Los Angeles.
Marilyn & Me
is his eleventh book.