Marilyn and Her Booksby Gail Crowther<\/p>\n
Crowther attempts to debunk Marilyn Monroe\u2019s dumb-blonde reputation by way of her private library: The star owned over 400 books ranging from \u201cThe Little Engine That Could,\u201d by Watty Piper (possibly bearing her juvenile scrawl), to \u201cLook Homeward, Angel\u201d and other works by Thomas Wolfe, to Russian literature. (She hoped to play Grushenka in a movie version of \u201cThe Brothers Karamazov.\u201d) Sensitive about not graduating from high school, Monroe studied world literature in an adult-extension program at U.C.L.A. \u201cIf you are ignorant, books won\u2019t laugh at you,\u201d she said poignantly. Read our review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marilyn and Her Booksby Gail Crowther Crowther attempts to debunk Marilyn Monroe\u2019s dumb-blonde reputation by way of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2518,96370,36197,96373,96366,28464,96367,96365,96362,96377,96369,96374,35105,80113,96368,46673,9,11,10,96364,96363,29203,65546,96375,96376,96372,96371],"class_list":["post-246732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alexa","tag-antonia","tag-books-and-literature","tag-by-the-bootstraps-book","tag-crowther","tag-david","tag-gail","tag-garvey","tag-haig","tag-june-baby-book","tag-marilyn","tag-marilyn-and-her-books-the-literary-life-of-marilyn-monroe-book","tag-martin","tag-matt","tag-monroe","tag-montero","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-rosa-author","tag-sedaris","tag-senior","tag-shannon","tag-stalins-apostles-the-cambridge-five-and-the-making-of-the-soviet-empire-book","tag-the-danger-to-be-sane-creativity-and-the-eccentric-mind-book","tag-the-land-and-its-people-book","tag-the-midnight-train-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}