Carl Rollyson

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)