Publishing 100 years after her birth, I Wanna Be Loved By You tells the story of Marilyn Monroe life through 100 captivating snapshots. I Wanna Be Loved By You draws upon unpublished letters from Marilyn, her husbands Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio; case notes and private letters from Monroe’s psychoanalyst, Dr. Ralph Greenson; and unpublished audio recordings from the likes of Jane Russell, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Amy and Milton Greene, housekeeper Eunice Murray (the last person to see Marilyn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, DiMaggio and 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. Were the Kennedys involved, or was she just let down by those closest to her?

With a dazzling and unique blend of reportage, archival investigation, interviews, and oral history, I Wanna Be Loved By You is a revealing and nuanced portrait of the life, death and afterlife of an icon who still fascinates us today.