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Carl Rollyson
Volume two of this monumental work rests on an unprecedented trove of research, giving us the most penetrating and comprehensive life of William Faulkner and providing a fascinating look at…
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Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He appeared in over two hundred motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting…
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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. This memoir of a professional…
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A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life
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…
With the publication of Susan Sontag’s diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides…
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…
Portrays a new William Faulkner - a man of astonishing paradoxes. Based on extensive interviews with family and friends of Faulkner, as well as unparalleled access to primary and secondary…
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 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…
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 The general introductory studies of West are outdated…
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…
Notable British Novelists consists of biographical sketches and career analyses of 104 of the best-known and most studied English, Scottish and Irish writers of long fiction from the 15th through…
Notable American Novelists presents biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, arranged alphabetically by…
The new fourth edition of The Critical Survey of Drama contains over 650 new and updated essay - over 550 discuss individual dramatists and nearly 100 cover important overview topics…
Each dramatist essay provides such ready-reference material as birth and death dates, and a list of the author’s major dramatic works. Each essay opens with a brief survey of the…
Carl Rollyson, Jr.
This is a brief biography that explores Marilyn Monroe’s life. This book is a part of Westview?s “Lives of American Women? series, edited by Carol Berkin. Each title in the…
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In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure…
Carol Easton
Sam Goldwyn’s career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. The Search for Sam Goldwyn locates the real Sam Goldwyn and shatters the hostile conspiracy of silence that protected his…
Carl Rollyson,Lisa Paddock
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…
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…
On the 50th anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath–the first to draw from the recently opened Ted Hughes archive.
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…
Carl E. Rollyson
Carl Rollyson’s lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his own practices as well as those of biographers from Samuel Johnson to Richard Ellmann and many…
A critical literary study of the British novelist, biographer, historian and critic Rebecca West by her recent biographer, Carl Rollyson. This text explores her position as a major literary figure…
Carl E Rollyson,Frank Northen Magill
These volumes combine, update and expand the reference sets Critical Survey of Drama: Revised Edition, English Language Series and Critical Survey of Drama, Foreign Language Series . They contain 613…
Carl Sokolnicki Rollyson,Lisa Olson Paddock
This guide gives students the tools to trace their ancestry, teaching them to collect data, obtain and evaluate documents and sources, use the latest electronic tools for researching, and conduct…
Lisa Olson Paddock,Carl Sokolnicki Rollyson
This guide to Scandinavian American Genealogy provides middle school and high school students of Scandinavian descent with historical background information, instructions and resource lists for compiling their family histories.