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