The Life of William Faulkner

This volume represents more than twenty-five years of writing about female icons and biography. R...

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

Picasso has often been called the greatest artist of this century. This biography defines his gre...

Thurgood Marshall was one of the original forces behind the National Association for the Advancem...

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

After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife sa...

Most book reviewers know very little about the history or the art of biography. Indeed, if there ...

This collection of reviews, selected from Rollyson's New York Sun column, is as much about the ro...

Documentary Film: Contexts and Criticism is designed to complement Rollyson's Documentary Film: A...

Essays in Biography is a play on words conveying Carl Rollyson's attempt to explore the nature of...

The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her ...

Is there a right way to write a literary life? In this collection of columns from the New York Su...

The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith Colle...

Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-descri...

DOCUMENTARY FILM: EXPANDED EDITION includes the complete texts of Documentary Film: A Primer and ...

Emily Dickinson exemplified the virtue of self-discipline. She wrote poetry largely for her own p...

Documentary Film: A Primer provides a succinct introduction to the nature of the documentary, dra...

'... this is a well-written and rich resource'. -- School Library Journal review of A Student's G...

Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, ...

Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the tal...

Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the tal...

Fresh perspectives on one of literature's most willfully enigmatic figures

Fresh perspectives on one of literature's most willfully enigmatic figures

The first biography of the prodigiously hardworking actor who embodied the Western ideal

Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pa...

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Until now, little sustained attention has been paid to the influences on Sylvia Plath’s life and ...

Rollyson's work is an informative and entertaining text for those interested in biography. He cov...

In Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events, Carl Rollyson provides a ...

A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer's life

A comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published ...

Carl Rollyson's lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his...

This is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about biography. Rollyson, a bi...

An intimate portrait of the famed writer, director, and activist

Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He appe...

In Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events, Carl Rollyson provides a ...

Here at last is the complete story of a great actor, his difficult struggle to overcome alcoholis...

The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraor...

With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluate...

Amy Lowell has been extolled as a founding member of the Imagist group, derided as the 'demon sal...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, William Faulkner was a southerner who became widel...

Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she ...

A fascinating investigation into the life and art of one of America's greatest poets

Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audi...

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Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner

The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West