My journey ends here...
SANDBURG Carl
Date of birth : January 6, 1878, Galesburg, Illinois.
Date of death : July 22, 1967, Flat Rock, North Carolina.
Practose: biographer and poet.
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He was awarded with the Pulitzer prize.
He wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln in six volumes, which is authoritative.
He met Marilyn on the set of "Some Like it Hot" (1959).
She liked to meet him since she had read his Lincoln biography Arthur Miller had recommended her during their first meeting, at the beginning of the 50's.
After her come back in New York, Marilyn saw him again 2 or 3
times, then they kept their friendship alive through the telephone.
She owned a bust of Sandburg she took with her after her break-up with Miller : 
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In December 1961, he was in Los Angeles to work on the screenplay of "The Greatest Story ever Told" with the director George Stevens. During her stay, he met Marilyn; this meeting was immortalized by the photographer Arnold Newman :
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On January 20th 1962, party at Henry Weinstein's home :
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asked him to read Marilyn's eulogy during her funeral; he refused
because he was too sick for that, but it's also asserted that he
thought he didn't know her enough to do it. This honor accrued to Lee Strasberg.
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