Carl Rollyson has published seven biographies, including three i Universe titles: Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy, The Lives of Norman Mailer, and Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Pablo Picasso, a children?s biography, appeared in 1992. He teaches at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
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Carl Rollyson: Marie Curie
Professional biographer Carl Rollyson has pioneered a new kind of biography for children and adults alike. His narrative of Marie Curie’s life is rendered in simple, precise prose, but he also includ …
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Carl Rollyson: Female Icons
This volume represents more than twenty-five years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but als …
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Carl Rollyson: Rebecca West and the God That Failed
After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife said, ‘Rebecca was such good company.’ He had already embarked on another biography, but Rebecca kept be …
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Carl Rollyson: Lives of the Novelists
Is there a right way to write a literary life? In this collection of columns from the New York Sun, Carl Rollyson explores the relationship between narrative and literary analysis. Should biographies …
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Carl Rollyson: Amy Lowell Anew
The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the ‘;new poetry’ that became new …
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Carl Rollyson: Marilyn Monroe Day by Day
From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century. However, no biograph …
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Carl Rollyson: British Biography
Biography as a literary genre is largely the product of the eighteenth century and of one seminal work, James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Boswell’s innovations revolutionized the genre a …
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Carl Rollyson & Lisa Paddock: Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson exemplified the virtue of self-discipline. She wrote poetry largely for her own pleasure and to exercise and increase her creative talents. Very few of her poems were published during …
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Lisa Paddock & Carl Rollyson: Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was one of the original forces behind the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the NAACP), one of the organizations that helped to advance the rights of Afric …
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Carl Rollyson: Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries
This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowells rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and o …
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Carl Rollyson & Lisa Paddock: Susan Sontag
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933–2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer’s life and career. The authors base this revisio …
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Carl Rollyson: Understanding Susan Sontag
A comprehensive account of the author’s entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries With the publication of Susan Sontag’s diaries, the development of her career can now be evalu …
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Carol Easton: The Search for Sam Goldwyn
Sam Goldwyn’s career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produc …
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Carl Rollyson: Marilyn Monroe
In American popular culture, Marilyn Monroe(1926–1962) has evolved in stature from movie superstar to American icon. Monroe’s own understanding of her place in the American imagination and her effort …
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Carl Rollyson: A Real American Character
Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real Mc Coys. He appeared i …
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Carl Rollyson: Real American Character
Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real Mc Coys. He appeared i …
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Lisa Paddock & Carl Rollyson: Susan Sontag
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer’s life and career. The authors base this revisio …
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Carl Rollyson: Beautiful Exile
Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her trav …
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Carl Rollyson: Biography
This is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about biography. Rollyson, a biographer and scholar of biography, includes chapters on the history of biography (beginning in the Gre …
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Carl Rollyson: Literary Legacy of Rebecca West
The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraordinary seventy-one year writing career. The general introductory studies of West are outdated and do n …
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Carl Rollyson: Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner
Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner’s historica …
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Carl Rollyson: Marilyn Monroe
In American popular culture, Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962) has evolved in stature from movie superstar to American icon. Monroe’s own understanding of her place in the American imagination and her effort …
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Rollyson Carl Rollyson: Confessions of a Serial Biographer
Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samuel Johnson school, doesn’t share this view. An account of a life, he believes, s …
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Carl Rollyson: Hollywood Enigma
Dana Andrews (1909–1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Ka …
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Carl Rollyson: Hollywood Enigma
Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Ka …
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Carl Rollyson: The Life of William Faulkner
William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South—half backwoods, half defeated empire—transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of …
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Carl Rollyson: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening …
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Carl Rollyson: Last Days of Sylvia Plath
In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening …
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Carl Rollyson: The Life of William Faulkner
By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner (‘A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados’— Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian t …
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Carol Easton: Search for Sam Goldwyn
Sam Goldwyn’s career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produc …
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Carl Rollyson: William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befo …
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Carl Rollyson: William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befo …
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Carl Rollyson: Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1
Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems i …
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Carl Rollyson: Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1
Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems i …
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Carl Rollyson: Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2
Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poet …
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Carl Rollyson: Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2
Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poet …
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Carl Rollyson: The Making of Sylvia Plath
Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking p …
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Carl Rollyson: Making of Sylvia Plath
Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking p …
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