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....

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

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.

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

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

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....

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

Carl Rollyson was Norman Mailer's first literary biographer to draw on unpublished letters and manuscripts as well as on interviews with the writer's friends and foes....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

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....

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

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

Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but also in much of the work he has subsequently done....

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....

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....

This memoir of a professional biographer's life tells the inside story of how he became interested in his subjects and reveals the mechanics of the trade....

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