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Carol M. Cram interviews Lynn Cullen about her novel 'When We Were Brilliant' and the significance of Eve Arnold in the context of Marilyn Monroe's photography.

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Lynn Cullen, author of When We Were Brilliant, listed in the Photography and Film categories on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/86MVn-3LjhY Eve Arnold, the only woman Marilyn Monroe ever let photograph her: who she was, why Lynn had never heard of her either, and the shock of discovering that among all of Marilyn's photographers, there were no other women.Using Eve's own coffee table book on Marilyn as the novel's framework: six photo shoo...

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