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Carl Rollyson
Biography of leading man, Ronald Colman.
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Providing new angles and perspectives on the life of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets, Sylvia Plath Day by Day offers a comprehensive image of its enigmatic subject.
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Here at last is the complete story of Dana Andrews (1909-1992): a great actor who struggled to overcome alcoholism while enjoying the accolades of his contemporaries, a successful term as…
This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowell’s rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile…
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…
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…
This series contains indepth analytical reference guides to 463 major writers of long fiction. The series has an accessible style and format that allow readers to zero in on precise…
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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…
This is a single-volume monograph that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information…
Native American Novelists is a single-volume monograph that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors…
In Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events, Carl Rollyson provides a documentary approach to the life and legend of this singular personality. With details…
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 The general introductory studies of West are outdated…
A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life
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In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work, since the publication of her diaries, he now has…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A collection telling the story of Carl Rollyson’s biography of Rebecca West got written, of what it means to think like a biographer, and why West’s vision remains relevant. She…
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…
Documentary Film: Contexts and Criticism is designed to complement Rollyson’s Documentary Film: A Primer. The films discussed in this volume include Zelig, the Lumiere brothers documentaries, Nanook of the North…
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…
