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IT'S NOT FICTION: MONROE WAS AN AVID READER.(News)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19991216
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``My Antonia'' by Willa Cather and ``The Portable Dorothy Parker'' are among five books owned by Marilyn Monroe that were given to the Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study.

``This just goes to prove that there was more to Marilyn Monroe than the movie star and popular icon. She was also a reader,'' said Jane Knowles, acting director of the institute's library in Cambridge, Mass.

The books were donated anonymously. All are works of fiction by American women, also including Cather's ``Lucy Gayheart,'' ``The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'' by Carson McCullers and ``The Little ...

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