Of all the founding fathers of this nation, probably the least known and least understood is James Monroe, the fourth in the early line of Virginia-born United States presidents behind Washington, ...

Marilyn Monroe was Hollywood's archetypal dumb blonde. She was also one smart cookie. That's the twist in Lois Banner's richly researched biography "Marilyn: the Passion and the Paradox." The passion ...

‘When the camera went on, she just came to life’: Monroe in 1953 (Bert Reisfeld/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock) Marilyn Monroe looks her saddest in slow motion. More and more, that tends to be ...

No student of biography – and certainly no devotee of Marilyn Monroe biographies – should be without “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe” (Metropolitan Books, 384 pages, $26). Nevertheless, caveat ...

When I was writing my biography of Marilyn Monroe, several editors deemed her a shopworn subject. This was in the 1980s. They, of course, misunderstood Monroe’s perennial place in the American ...