Carl Rollyson

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath’s last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes’s alternating threats and reassurances....

The second and concluding volume of Carl Rollyson’s ambitious biography finds Faulkner lamenting the many threats to his creative existence....

From this comprehensive, yet critically measured wealth of material, Rollyson offers a distinctive and insightful portrait of Marilyn Monroe....

This controversial and acclaimed biography portrays a vibrant and troubled woman who never tired of fighting for causes she considered just....

The culmination of years of research in archives that have been largely ignored by previous biographers, The Life of William Faulkner offers a significant challenge and an essential contribution to Faulkner scholarship....

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.

Rebecca West is one of the great personalities and writers of the modern age, and one that we are just beginning to comprehend....

He provides entertaining and informative accounts of her feud with Mary McCarthy, and her many love affairs and surprising friendships....

Professional biographer Carl Rollyson has pioneered a new kind of biography for children and adults alike....

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....

The controversial American poet Amy Lowell excelled as the impresario for the "new poetry" that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I....

American Isis is the first Plath biography benefiting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library, which includes 41 letters between Plath and Hughes....

Thurgood Marshall was one of the original forces behind the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)....

Carl Rollyson was Norman Mailer's first literary biographer to draw on unpublished letters and manuscripts as well as on interviews with the writer's friends and foes....

Called "one of nature's noblemen", Dana Andrews emerges from Hollywood Enigma as an admirable American success story, fighting his inner demons and ultimately winning....

Rebecca West was a prophet - one not always appreciated in her own day....

As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today....

Too many biographers, Rollyson believes, evince no interest in the biographical tradition. They're concerned only with possession of their subjects....

Picasso has often been called the greatest artist of this century....

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....