Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
Biography, autobiography, and critical commentary all merge in this unique book about a past that never ends but that can be remade in poetry that is very much alive now.
‘Wifedom’ reads like a work of fiction, no matter how Anna Funder sources her book.
Jefferson could not conceive of an America that would assimilate free Black citizens. He feared that slavery had so injured Black people that they would retaliate in a race war.
Lewis’s vulnerability disarms his biographer, whereas King for all his noble rhetoric and moral suasion had a crass side that permits a biographer to be a little more earthy than this one.
Brought up in a proper Connecticut middle class home, she scandalized her family by doing hard-core sex films. Yet Chambers wanted everyone to know that what she did was acting.
Gabrielle Carey’s brief biography collects the essential details of Joyce’s life and delivers them in a delightful, underplayed way.
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