CARL ROLLYSON
Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
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Three Hollywood Lives Led the Hard Way
Biographies of screenwriter Mary McCall, actress Joan Crawford, and singer Helen Morgan illustrate some of the struggles behind all of the glitz and glamor.
Two Hollywood Writers of Genius Who Foretold Today’s Mishmash of Fact and Fiction
If you can overlook language about ‘this broiling cauldron of cinematic creativity,’ you will learn a good deal about how Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder made prophetic films.
Audrey Hepburn and Hollywood, Home of the Displaced
A riches to rags to riches princess who virtually starved in Nazi-occupied Holland, Hepburn witnessed the transportation of Jews to concentration camps a decade before becoming an international movie star.
Josiah Wedgwood and the Melancholy of Mechanized Perfection
In effect, the author suggests Wedgwood’s unremitting effort to reconstitute the classical world in ceramic form parallels — if it was not caused by — the loss of his own limb.
The Schuylers and the Sisterhood of History
Amanda Vaill achieves what is for biographers a difficult balance between biography and history. If her work is not made into a major dramatic series, it will be a big surprise.
JFK in a Family Way
Especially intriguing is the biographer’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the interplay between JFK and Robert, his brother and attorney general, and their father, Joseph Kennedy.
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