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  • Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1

    1932-1955

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age novel in her semiautobiographical The Bell Jar. Each new biography has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath’s life ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraordinary seventy-one year writing career. The general introductory studies of West are outdated and do not take into account her posthumous publications, or her large literary archive of unpublished letters and manuscripts. Previous scholarly books have chopped West up into categories and genres instead ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2

    1955-1963

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath was also fueled in part by the nature of her death—a suicide while she was estranged from her husband, Ted Hughes, who was ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Female Icons

    Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    This volume represents more than twenty-five years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but also in much of the work he has subsequently done on Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and on the nature of biography itself.This book includes a selection of Rollyson's New ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Amy Lowell Anew

    A Biography

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the "new poetry" that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I. Maligned by T. S. Eliot as the "demon saleswoman" of poetry, and ridiculed by Ezra Pound, Lowell has been treated by previous biographers as an obese, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rebecca West and the God That Failed

    Essays

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife said, "Rebecca was such good company." He had already embarked on another biography, but Rebecca kept beckoning him. He felt there was more to say about her politics-a misunderstood part of her repertoire as reporter and novelist. And had he done justice to her enormous sense of fun and humor? He ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Faulkner On and Off the Page

    Essays in Biographical Criticism

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work. Faulkner’s view of himself and his own family was mercurial, and it is widely acknowledged that Faulkner was an unreliable narrator of his own life. As a result, biographies of Faulkner echo and complicate the multitude of ways he portrayed himself, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Marilyn Monroe

    A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    Series series Hollywood Legends Series
    In American popular culture, Marilyn Monroe(1926–1962) has evolved in stature from movie superstar to American icon. Monroe's own understanding of her place in the American imagination and her effort to perfect her talent as an actress are explored with great sensitivity in Carl Rollyson's engaging narrative. He shows how movies became crucial events in the shaping of Monroe's identity. He regards ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • British Biography

    A Reader

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    Biography as a literary genre is largely the product of the eighteenth century and of one seminal work, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Boswell's innovations revolutionized the genre and made it the target of suppression and censorship. He sought not only to memorialize a great man but also to reveal his flaws. Boswell reported long stretches of Johnson's conversation, noted his ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Marilyn Monroe Day by Day

    A Timeline of People, Places, and Events

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century. However, no biography—regardless how authoritative—can contain all of the facts and events of an individual’s life, and Marilyn’s is no exception.In Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Amy Lowell Anew

    A Biography

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the “new poetry” that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I. Maligned by T. S. Eliot as the “demon saleswoman” of poetry, and ridiculed by Ezra Pound, Lowell has been treated by previous biographers as an obese, ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • Hollywood Enigma

    Dana Andrews

    by Carl Rollyson ...
    Series series Hollywood Legend Series
    Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD