CARL ROLLYSON
Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
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Edward Albee, Virginia Woolf, and America’s First Couple
If you know the play ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ and the movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Philip Gefter’s book is likely to satisfy you in a number of ways.
For Both Presidents Roosevelt, Making History Began at Home
These two books show the biographies of great men and their mothers and sisters and wives coalescing into the courage and perseverance that is demonstrated in everyday family life, far from fields of battle.
Auden, Salinger, and the Importance of Literary Biography
In an age when literary biography counts for so little, these two writers are not taking their subjects for granted — asserting that we should, in other words, be interested in them or interested in them again.
A New Kind of Newspaper, the Village Voice, Emerges Out of the Conformist 1950s
In this epic oral biography, based on more than 200 interviews, it seems that everyone significant in the creation and perpetuation of a contrarian kind of journalism has a voice in its 88 chapters.
Making Known Some of the Winners of World War II
Like Sefton Delmer’s story, Winthrop Bell’s has not heretofore been told: Because spies don’t tell.
How Winston Churchill’s Numerous Networks Led to His Rendezvous With History
‘Churchill was able to save the world from the scourge of Nazism in part because he had the foresight to create a network of support for Britain and the English-speaking peoples,’ his great-grandson writes.
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