Marilyn Close Up

Authors

Marilyn Monroe, celebrity iconography, photographic memoir, Hollywood mythology, fame and vulnerability, American celebrity culture

Richard Stratton

Richard Stratton is a writer whose fiction and journalism have appeared in numerous magazines including GQ, Esquire, Details, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, Penthouse, Playboy and Story Magazine. Nation Books published his latest book, Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen, in October, 2005. His Playboy article on John Gotti Junior and Senior won the 2011 New York Press Club Award for Crime Reporting.