page_title: Susan Strasberg
section_title: Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Susan Strasberg / Writing
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Sir Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe and Susan Strasberg. Olivier and Monroe were visiting Strasberg backstage when she was starring in The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway. The production closed June 22, 1957.
context_page_description: Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of 18 for playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. Later in her career, she wrote two best-selling books.
context_section_description: Strasberg wrote two best-selling books. Bittersweet was an autobiography in which she wrote about her tumultuous relationships with her parents and with actors Richard Burton and Christopher Jones, as well as with her own daughter's struggles with a heart defect. She received a $100,000 advance for it and sold paperback rights for $300,000.
  Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends (1992) was about Strasberg's friendship with Marilyn Monroe, whom she called a "surrogate sister" and a "member" of the Strasberg family for many years.
  Strasberg was working on a third book about her personal spiritual journey at the time of her death entitled Confessions of a New Age Heretic.
caption: Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe visit Strasberg backstage at The Diary of Anne Frank
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