Carl E. Rollyson is an American biographer and professor of journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York.[1]

Selected publications

  • Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1986, revised 2014)
  • Lillian Hellman: Her Life and Legend (1988)
  • Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave: The Story of Martha Gellhorn (1990)
  • The Lives of Norman Mailer (1991, revised as Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic, 2008)
  • Rebecca West: A Life (1996, titled, Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century in the UK, revised as Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl in 2008)
  • The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West (1997)
  • Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon (2000, with Lisa Paddock, revised 2016)
  • Herman Melville A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (2000, with Lisa Paddock)
  • Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to Her Work (2001)
  • Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn (2002)
  • Reading Susan Sontag (2002)
  • Marie Curie: Honesty in Science (2004)
  • To Be A Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie (2004)
  • Documentary Film: A Primer (2004)
  • Reading Biography (2004)
  • Essays in Biography (2005)
  • A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography (2005)
  • Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag (2005)
  • Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays (2005)
  • Lives of the Novelists (2005)
  • Critical Companion to Herman Melville: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (2006)
  • American Biography (2006)
  • Biography: A User’s Guide (2008)
  • Emily Dickinson: Self-Discipline in the Service of Art (2009, with Lisa Paddock)
  • Thurgood Marshall: Perseverance of Justice (2009, with Lisa Paddock)
  • British Biography: A Reader (2009)
  • Pablo Picasso: A Biography For Beginners (2009)
  • Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries (2010)
  • Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews (2012)
  • Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography (2013)
  • American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath (2013)
  • Marilyn Monroe: Day by Day (2014)
  • A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan (2015)
  • A Private Life of Michael Foot (2015)
  • Confessions of a Serial Biographer (2016)
  • Understanding Susan Sontag (2016)
  • The Last Days of Sylvia Plath (2020)
  • The Life of William Faulkner, volume 1: The Past is Never Dead (1897-1934) (2020)
  • The Life of William Faulkner, volume 2: This Alarming Paradox (1935-1962) (2020)

References

  1. ↑ "Author". US Macmillan.


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