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  • American Biography by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    American Biography

    This collection of reviews, selected from Rollyson's New York Sun column, is as much about the romance of biography as it is about the American lives. Certain concerns resonate throughout the book: the American left's failure to reckon with Communist subversion, McCarthyism, and Stalinism,...
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  • American Isis by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    American Isis

    The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith College, she had a conflicted relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the Sturm und Drang of literary celebrity....
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  • Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography

    Amy Lowell has been extolled as a founding member of the Imagist group, derided as the "demon saleswoman" of poetry, and shunned as a lesbian, cigar-smoking sensationalist. This provocative biography draws on newly discovered material to restore the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet to her full...
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  • Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn

    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 travel books are considered classics. Her marriage...
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  • Biography: A User's Guide by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Biography: A User's Guide

    Carl Rollyson's Biography: A User's Guide is an informative and entertaining text for those interested in biography. No aspect of the genre, from A to Z, goes uncovered: issues around authorized and unauthorized biography, censorship, libel, fair use, public domain (referred to as "PD"...
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  • Biography: An Annotated Bibliography by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Biography: An Annotated Bibliography

    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 Greco-Roman period and concluding with biographers such as Leon Edel and Richard Ellmann). Ample sections on...
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  • Documentary Film: A Primer by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Documentary Film: A Primer

    Documentary Film: A Primer provides a succinct introduction to the nature of the documentary, drawing on examples from the work of Robert Flaherty, Dziga Vertov, Leni Riefenstahl, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Spalding Gray, Cindy Sherman, Susan Sontag, and others. The documentaries discussed cover a...
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  • Emily Dickinson: Self-Discipline in the Service of Art by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Emily Dickinson: Self-Discipline in the Service of Art

    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 her own lifetime, yet we know that she wrote consistently--perhaps every day--over several...
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  • Essays in Biography by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Essays in Biography

    Essays in Biography is a play on words conveying Carl Rollyson's attempt to explore the nature of biography in pieces about the history of the genre and in portrayals of biographers (Plutarch, Leon Edel, and W. A. Swanberg), literary figures (Lillian Hellman, Jack London),...
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  • Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag

    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 also in much of the work he has subsequently done on Lillian Hellman,...
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  • Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews

    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 Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan...
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  • Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events

    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 biography--regardless how authoritative--can contain all of the facts and events of an individual's life, and...
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  • Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated

    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 to perfect her talent as an actress are explored with great sensitivity in Carl Rollyson's...
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  • Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners

    Picasso has often been called the greatest artist of this century. This biography defines his greatness: his accomplishment and versatility as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, ceramicist, and designer. Most of the innovations in twentieth century art are associated not only with his work...
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  • Reading Biography by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Reading Biography

    Most book reviewers know very little about the history or the art of biography. Indeed, if there is any art in biography, it is the rare reviewer that acknowledges it or knows how to discuss it. Usually the reviewer regards biography as an occasion...
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  • Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to Her Work by Rollyson, Carl E.
    Carl Rollyson

    Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to Her Work

    The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. "One can ask for no better guidebook."-M. Thomas Inge.Author: Carl RollysonISBN-10: 1566633915ISBN-13: 9781566633918Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2001Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.07h x 6.07w x...
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  • Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays

    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 beckoning him. He felt there was more to say about her politics-a...
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  • Ronald Colman (hardback): Hollywood's Gentleman Hero by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Ronald Colman (hardback): Hollywood's Gentleman Hero

    Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood's gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the screen's leading ladies, including Lillian Gish, Joan Bennett, Kay Francis, Loretta...
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  • Ronald Colman: Hollywood's Gentleman Hero by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Ronald Colman: Hollywood's Gentleman Hero

    Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood's gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the screen's leading ladies, including Lillian Gish, Joan Bennett, Kay Francis, Loretta...
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  • Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon

    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 revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence--including emails--and the letters and memoirs of those...
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  • Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955 by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955

    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 in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age...
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  • Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2: 1955-1963 by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2: 1955-1963

    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 poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath was...
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  • The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Rollyson, Carl
    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 to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on...
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  • The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

    A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer's lifeIn 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...
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  • The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 Volume 1 by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 Volume 1

    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 the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has...
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  • The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962 Volume 2 by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962 Volume 2

    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 to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the...
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  • The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    The 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 not take into account her posthumous publications, or her large literary archive...
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  • The Making of Sylvia Plath by Rollyson, Carl
    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 poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath has also...
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  • Thurgood Marshall: Perserverance for Justice by Rollyson, Carl
    Carl Rollyson

    Thurgood Marshall: Perserverance for Justice

    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 African Americans in the 20th century. His pursuit of civil rights reached a...
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  • Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner by Rollyson, Carl
    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 historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield),...
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  • William Faulkner Day by Day by Rollyson, Carl
    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 before now. William Faulkner Day by Day provides unique insight into the daily life of one...
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