“He Just Can’t Forget.” Caption for photos of Mailer and Marilyn Monroe. No author. Boston Herald, 6 March. Asked why he felt compelled to write Strawhead, a play about Monroe, after writing her biography (73.30), and a novel about her (Of Women and Their Elegance, 80.15), he said, “People have been asking me that for 10 years. I have a few answers, but don’t believe any of them.”