CARL ROLLYSON
Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
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The Mystery of Thomas Noguchi, Coroner to the Stars
The controversial coroner presided over the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, the victims of Charles Manson, and Natalie Wood, while also writing a memoir and mystery stories.
A Kerouac Character Based on a Black Woman Is Brought to Further Life in a New Novel
Nisi Shawl transports the genre of biographical fiction into fantasy bordering on science fiction, and she does it with a light, sly style that is brilliant, beautiful, and profound.
Biographical Fiction Finally Gets Its Due
What is valuable in this collection is that by showing the sheer diversity of views on the genre, its power and plentitude become strikingly apparent as a revelation of how fiction itself is developing across the world.
Norman Lock Reaches Culmination of His Wry, Ironic, and Comic American Novels Series
‘Eden’s Clock’ is the 12th and final book of a series that includes stunning portrayals of personages such as Susan B. Anthony, P.T. Barnum, John Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Art and Biography Converge in the Work of a Transgender Artist
The author uses succinctly written biographies and gouache on paper paintings to recover the obscure lives of women who dressed or otherwise presented themselves as men.
Redeeming the Life of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer
In effect, the author is arguing that at several crucial points during Jesus’s lifetime and immediately afterward, faith in him and his message could have been destroyed if not for the efforts of his followers.
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