Carole Boston Weatherford
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe.
From the day she was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe lived a life that was often defined by others. This verse novel revisits Marilyn's often traumatic early life of foster homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, teen marriage, and follows her into a hard-won, meteoric rise to stardom that brought...