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William Faulkner
One of Faulkner's most controversial novels!
A lesser-known but compelling novel from the author of Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury.
Have you ever wondered what speaks to…
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Carl Rollyson
Biography of leading man, Ronald Colman.
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…
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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.
Until now, little sustained attention has been paid to the influences on Sylvia Plath's life and work. In this meticulously researched biography, Carl Rollyson explores the intricate web of literature…
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 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…
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…
Rollyson’s work is an informative and entertaining text for those interested in biography. He covers the issues around authorized and unauthorized biography, censorship, libel, fair use, public domain, and more.
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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 The general introductory studies of West are outdated…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life
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…
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…
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…
DOCUMENTARY FILM: EXPANDED EDITION includes the complete texts of Documentary Film: A Primer and Documentary Film: Contexts and Criticism while also augmenting certain sections: Readings, Model Reviews, Student Reviews, and…
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…
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.
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…
