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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…
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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…
Whatever ultimate judgment is rendered on Hellman’s work as playwright, screenwriter, and memoirist, the remarkable range of her achievement is undeniable. Each essay in this volume is 5,000 words in…
Flappers, prohibition, jazz, and the Lost Generation, The Twenties in America examines the iconic personalities and moments of this uproarious decade. The encyclopaedia serves as a valuable source of reliable…
Carl Rollyson
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…
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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…
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Dana Andrews worked with distinguished directors such as john Ford, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of…
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…
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…
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…
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Each new biography of Sylvia Plath has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath's life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume series, offers a distillation…
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…
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 newly revised Critical Survey of Long Fiction grows to ten volumes and offers profiles on the major writers of long fiction throughout history and the world. The in-depth essays…
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…
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…
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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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…
