By that time I was an accomplished photojournalist, working for glossy picture magazines all over the world. I began interviewing the subjects of my stories and recording them, thereby not only beginning to preserve history but also giving myself a unique education. You see, I grew up not being able to spell or read well (I would later discover that I was dyslexic). So I had found a road to learning. In 2007, when I was seventy, I asked a friend, the author Larry Grobel, to interview me two times a week, week after week, month after month, to preserve the events of my very full life, because, as I have often said to my own subjects, you owe it to history. It’s from this series of interviews, which are still ongoing, that I have gathered my recollections to write about Marilyn Monroe. The events and conversations in this book have been reconstructed to the best of my memory. To confirm my impressions, I’ve also relied on documents and notes from my personal archives and the knowledge of others who knew Marilyn and me during this period of time.
