A volume that gathers a precious selection of writings and reflections on Marilyn Monroe, sixty years after her death on 4 August 1962. When Norma Jeane Mortenson Baker died, many celebrated pens wanted to remember her, and as Goffredo Fofi writes in opening, hundreds more go on explaining her at every anniversary, interpreting her death, trying to define her charm or running down her qualities as an actress and her stature as a woman: what a vast anthology could be compiled by choosing the best and the worst of that prose. Taking up the provocation, the book makes an honest portrait, far from the stereotypes, of an actress who years later is still an iconic figure, become legendary for her overwhelming beauty and her talent and exemplary for the course of her own life. That beautiful child is presented afresh by Truman Capote’s remembrance, from which fragility and splendour emerge together, and she becomes the subject of the lucid and moving elegy Pier Paolo Pasolini pays her at the end of his film La rabbia. A prayer by Ernesto Cardenal for the young woman who dreamed of being a film star follows Piergiorgio Bellocchio’s reflection on the suicide of the Hollywood star. These exceptional texts are accompanied by a remarkable choice of images made by the great authors of Magnum Photos.