Skip to main content

Andrew Wilson

Biography

Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson is the author of BEAUTIFUL SHADOW: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best biography. He has written for most of Britain's national newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and the Daily Mail. He lives in London.

Andrew Wilson

Books by Andrew Wilson

by Andrew Wilson - Biography, Nonfiction

I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU presents Marilyn in a startling new light. It draws upon unpublished letters from Marilyn, Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio; case notes and private letters from Monroe’s psychoanalyst, Dr. Ralph Greenson; and unpublished audio recordings from the likes of Jane Russell, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Amy and Milton Greene, housekeeper Eunice Murray (the last person to see Marilyn alive) and many more. We go behind the scenes of her marriages to teenage sweetheart Jim Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. We see Marilyn train with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, working to dismantle the common perception that she was merely a dumb blonde. And in the concluding chapters, Wilson dissects what happened on the night Marilyn died after a suspected drug overdose.

by Andrew Wilson - History, Nonfiction

Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs and diaries, as well as interviews with survivors’ family members, award-winning journalist and author Andrew Wilson reveals how some used their experience to propel themselves on to fame, while others were so racked with guilt they spent the rest of their lives under the Titanic’s shadow.