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Carl Rollyson

Carl Rollyson
Carl Rollyson is professor emeritus of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. He is author of many biographies, including Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volumes 1 & 2; William Faulkner Day by Day; The Last Days of Sylvia Plath; A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; and Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated. He is also coauthor (with Lisa Paddock) of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated. His reviews of biographies have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New Criterion. He also writes a column on biography twice a week for the New York Sun.


How a Young Sylvia Plath Found Her Literary Voice Through Diary Keeping

Carl Rollyson on the Teenage Years of One of America's Most Famous Female Poets
November 19, 2024  By Carl Rollyson
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From Shopping to Sex: Indexing the Life of Sylvia Plath

Carl Rollyson on the Revelations and Limits of a Quantitative Exercise
June 28, 2024  By Carl Rollyson
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Young William Faulkner in the French Quarter

The Creolization of Faulkner's Writing
March 24, 2020  By Carl Rollyson
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Uncovering the Hidden Love Lives of Sylvia Plath and William Faulkner

Carl Rollyson on Researching For His Two New Biographies
March 23, 2020  By Carl Rollyson
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