Author Event! With Lois Cahall in conversation with Fonda Snyder

About the book:

What if, on the night of August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe didn’t die?
What if she got away? Because all she ever dreamed of was to disappear and have a child.
Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 on June 1, 2026, and the world is preparing for a massive centennial celebration with official festivals and events focusing on her enduring impact on film, fashion, and culture. And then there’s Lois Cahall’s new novel...Maybe Marilyn...
Marilyn Monroe’s housekeeper, Eunice Murray, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, were supposedly the only two people to ever see her dead. Five hours elapsed between the time they found Marilyn’s body and the authorities were contacted. These facts beg the question: Why was the house rearranged, phone records seized, and evidence destroyed? Was her suicide staged?
Set in 2019, this is a novel about Marilyn Monroe the survivor instead of Marilyn Monroe the victim. When two young reporters get the tip of a lifetime, they go on an elusive search to find her—and learn a thing or two about history in the process. Whether they find Marilyn or not remains to be seen, but what they do find is her granddaughter—alive and well—living up on Cape Cod.
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. Nor have the flawed reports.… #MarilynLives

About the author:

Lois Cahall is the author of THE MANY LIVES & LOVES OF HAZEL LAVERY (2024), THE COURT OF THE MYRTLES (Bloomsbury) and PLAN C: JUST IN CASE (Bloomsbury) a runaway #1 best-seller in the UK which remained in the top three fiction for 2012. Lois spent her early career writing women’s, men’s, food and culture articles for Hearst and Conde Nast publications. Lois is the former Creative Director of Development of James Patterson Entertainment and the Founder of both Cape Cod Book Festival (2024) www.capecodbookfestival.com and Palm Beach Festival (2015) www.palmbeachbookfestival.com bringing in NYT best-sellers.

Multi Emmy and Annie award nominated Producer, Fonda Snyder has written, developed and sold more than 50 projects for networks, streamers and major feature film studios, including #1 Animated movie currently out from Sony Pictures Animation entitled GOAT with Steph Curry and Jennifer Hudson voicing. With animated features at Netflix, Dreamworks, Warner Bros, and Sony and tv series at Disney, PBS and Netflix, she was hired by Global Toy Company, Maison Battat as Executive Vice President. Currently, as President of Alchemy Ink, Inc., Snyder represents authors and illustrators, including Pulitzer Prize winning Berkeley Breathed, Suzanne and Max Lang and their #1 NY Times Bestseller, Grumpy Monkey; Hilary Duff, Brad Meltzer, The Jim Henson Co. and Kevin Costner.

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