About the Authors

JAMES SPADA was ten years old when he was first enchanted by Marilyn Monroe in 1960. At thirteen he founded the Marilyn Monroe Memorial Fan Club and produced its bulletins and journals for four years. Spada is the author of the bestselling Streisand: Her Life; Grace Kelly: The Secret Lives of a Princess, Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets and Bette Davis: More Than a Woman and was publisher of Barbra, a quarterly magazine about Streisand. His writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Vanity Fair, Ladies Home Journal, The New York Times Book Review, London Sunday Express, Cosmopolitan, People, McCall’s, Us, Los Angeles, New York Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and London Daily Mirror. Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, he now lives in Los Angeles.

GEORGE ZENO’s extraordinary collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia was profiled in Life magazine. He “discovered” Marilyn in 1953 and was vice-president of the Marilyn Monroe Memorial Fan Club for four years. Mr. Zeno was a library assistant for Time, Inc. He studied at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and is a free-lance fashion illustrator. Born in Puerto Rico, he now lives in New York. He co-authored his second Marilyn Monroe book, Marilyn in Fashion, with Christopher Nickens in 2012