"Fasten your seatbelts for this long overdue biography of the legendary adult film icon Marilyn Chambers. Meticulously researched, Pure is an empathetic tribute to a woman who defied convention and symbolized sexual liberation on the screen. Jared Stearns has chronicled the triumphs and tragedies of Marilyn's life for longtime fans as well as anyone insatiable for a great read!"

-Jeffrey Schwarz, award-winning filmmaker (Tab Hunter Confidential, I Am Divine!, The Fabulous Allan Carr)

"From the innocent-looking girl smiling on the front of the Ivory Snow detergent box to the raunchy blonde goddess in some of the most successful adult movies of all time, Marilyn Chambers was an insatiable force to be reckoned with. Jared Stearns' illuminating and addictive biography follows Chambers' incredible journey from respectable Westport to the neon lights of Hollywood and exposes the excesses of her short and hedonistic life. Sex, money, drugs, and tragedy, Stearns' book has it all. It is the perfect allegory of the American Porn Dream." - Simon Sheridan, writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker (Come Play with Me - The Life and Films of Mary Millington; Keeping the British End Up - Four Decades of Saucy Cinema)

"A touching, insightful, and unvarnished look at the X-rated 'porno chic' subculture of the Seventies and its reigning fresh-faced blonde queen, the late Marilyn Chambers. In Jared Stearns's sensitive and empathetic telling, Marilyn emerges for the first time as a multi-dimensional woman with both dreams and damage-and surprisingly, as the title tells, as someone who managed to retain a central purity despite the challenges of her world. Stearns takes a hard look at her exploitation and abuse by various reptilian business associates and, especially, by her sadistic, manipulative husband/manager Chuck Traynor. Yet Marilyn survived and went on to what she considered her greatest role, as a devoted mother to her only child. In Pure, Marilyn has finally found the understanding and appreciation that so often eluded her in life." - Vanda Krefft, author (The Man Who Made the Movies) and entertainment journalist