Carl Rollyson

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

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.

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....

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

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

Jill Craigie - filmmaker, writer, pioneering feminist, and devoted wife to former Labour leader Michael Foot - led an extraordinary life....

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

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

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....

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

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....

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....

The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraordinary 71-year writing career....

This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowell's rightful place in the history of American literature....

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....

Rollyson proposes a number of apologias for biography, including the thought that in the right hands the literary biography is a continuation of the writer's work and life....

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

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

With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain....

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....