Carl E. Rollyson is an American biographer and professor of journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York.
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)
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External links http://www.carlrollyson.com/works.htm