CARL ROLLYSON
Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
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Lincoln Without Illusions, Tested in a ‘Time of Shadows’
Lincoln was a big man in every sense of the word and that he made Americans feel big, but the author does not hide his doubts about how well Lincoln would do in dispelling today’s shadows on democracy.
Florence Nightingale Now: A Novel Shifts Not Only the Famed Nurse’s Perspective but Our Own
The dialogue makes this novel a standout, creating out of two actual people characters who define their different places in a remote world made present.
On the Ground With a Pulitzer Winner, Malcolm Browne, in South Vietnam
The modest Browne is perhaps the ideal subject to show how a dedication to journalism — to getting the story — would naturally alienate the reporter from supporters of government policy.
Going Gothic With Richard III and William Faulkner
The desire to turn real people into fictional characters disturbs those who want to draw a firm line between fiction and fact. It can’t be done — not in a novel, and not in works of history and biography.
Michael Arlen Among the Literary Set’s High and Mighty
Philip Ward does a dashing job of portraying Arlen as a phenomenon, not as a writer, who is, in the biographer’s estimation, historically important but not an enduring author.
Getting the News From Poets, in This Case Sylvia Plath and Anthony Hecht
She regarded him as a condescending male, and he thought of her as catty and self-absorbed, as the author discloses in his poignant biography of a poet reckoning with his Jewish heritage and the Holocaust in ways not dissimilar to Plath’s.
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