21 Monday Oct 2013
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Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Miller, Canada, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn's Mindset, Mark Twain, Norma Jeane's Wishes In Time, Norman Mailer, Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, Stuart P. Coates, Time Travel, Whispers Across Time
An interview with Stuart P. Coates, the Canadian author of three science fiction novels (two of which feature a time-travelling Marilyn Monroe.) Continue reading
16 Monday Feb 2009
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
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Marilyn Monroe filming 'The Misfits', 1960
“The Mmm Girl has left an indelible series of images in my memory..this novel is more accurate, in many ways, than anything else that has been written about Marilyn and it is the only book to ever leave me with a lasting impression of the loneliness and desperation of her real life.”
Stuart P. Coates, author of Norma Jeane’s Wishes In Time
Read his full review here… Continue reading
27 Tuesday Jan 2009
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe
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“I always had too many fantasies to be just a housewife,” Marilyn Monroe once said. “I guess I am a fantasy.” Little did she know how many of us would share that fantasy, nearly fifty years after her death. Monroe has been the subject of many biographies, some more fanciful than real, and also a few works of honest fiction. Her image is indelibly marked on our collective consciousness.
Norma Jeane’s Wishes In Time began as a short story, and was later expanded into a full-length novel. As the title indicates, author Stuart P. Coates is fascinated not just by the Marilyn Monroe of screen legend, but the woman who created her – Norma Jeane Mortenson. We all know Marilyn, or think we do – but who was Norma Jeane, and was she very different? Continue reading
