Marilyn Monroe:: Hollywood Icon

Lives Cut Short offers a well-rounded looks at influential figures in pop culture who met tragic, untimely deaths. Each title covers biographical information as well as career challenges and successes of these remarkable personalities.

Biographies, historic events, current debates, and social issues are all an essential part of the curriculum. Readers can meet these research needs with the Essential Library, a well-researched, well-written, and beautifully designed imprint.

The Essential Library offers tremendous research tools:

Primary research and sources

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Timelines

Further Readings

Web sites-to expand research

Glossaries

Author Biography