What if Marilyn Monroe didn’t die? Author imagines a happier ending
What if Marilyn Monroe didn’t die? Author imagines a happier ending
Jan Tuckwood, Special to the Palm Beach PostSun, May 31, 2026 at 10:01 AM UTC
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Lois Cahall has long been captivated by the most glorious bombshell of all time, Marilyn Monroe.
In her new novel, “Maybe Marilyn,” she creates an alternate ending for Monroe’s life, and looks into the phenomenon of our endless fascination with the doomed star.
“We all have a bit of Marilyn in us,” says Cahall, who founded the Palm Beach Book Festival in 2015 and now lives in Cape Cod. “She’s a mirror image about everything that mothers and daughters revere yet also despise about their very selves. Failure, success, beauty queen, power house…”
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Lois Cahall, who founded the Palm Beach Book Festival more than a decade ago, has written a new novel reinventing Marilyn Monroe’s story. What if Marilyn had not died but escaped and created a new life?
Her book positions Marilyn as a survivor, not a victim.
“Marilyn was the most glamorous, vulnerable and complex star, and whenever someone dies too young — Diana, JFK Jr., Carolyn Bessette — there is so much that was left undone. Biographers have long claimed that there is a world of devoted fans who hunger to bring their idol back to life. Their hunger has never waned.”
“Maybe Marilyn,” published by Post Hill/Simon & Schuster, is Cahall’s fourth novel. She is also the founder of the Cape Cod Book Festival.
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