Carl Rollyson
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
- Lillian Hellman: Her Life and Legend
- Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave: The Story of Martha Gellhorn
- The Lives of Norman Mailer
- Rebecca West: A Life
- The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West
- Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon
- Herman Melville A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work
- Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn
- Reading Susan Sontag
- Marie Curie: Honesty in Science
- To Be A Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie
- Documentary Film: A Primer
- Reading Biography
- Essays in Biography
- A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography
- Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag
- Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays
- Lives of the Novelists
- Critical Companion to Herman Melville: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
- American Biography
- Biography: A User’s Guide
- Emily Dickinson: Self-Discipline in the Service of Art
- Thurgood Marshall: Perseverance of Justice
- British Biography: A Reader
- Pablo Picasso: A Biography For Beginners
- Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries
- Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews
- Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography
- American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
- Marilyn Monroe: Day by Day
- A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan
- A Private Life of Michael Foot
- Confessions of a Serial Biographer
- Understanding Susan Sontag
- The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
- The Life of William Faulkner, volume 1: The Past is Never Dead
- ''The Life of William Faulkner, volume 2: This Alarming Paradox''