In this intimate and inventive work of creative fiction, Aubrey Malone, author of The Elvis Diaries, offers a haunting portrait of Marilyn Monroe through imagined diary entries that span from her troubled childhood in 1930s Los Angeles to her tragic death in 1962. Blending fact with lyrical invention, The Marilyn Diaries reveals the private thoughts of Norma Jeane as she becomes the mythic Marilyn: a woman adored for her beauty, yet plagued by loneliness, longing, and a past she could never outrun. By turns witty, raw, and heartbreakingly tender, this is not a biography but a fictional confessional, a glimpse inside the mind of a star the world saw, but never truly knew.