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Carl Rollyson, Professor of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York, has published more than forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and Jill Craigie to studies of American culture, genealogy, children’s biography, film, and literary criticism. He has authored more than 500 articles on American and European literature and history. His work has been reviewed in newspapers such as The New York Times and the London Sunday Telegraph and in journals such as American Literature and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. For four years (2003-2007) he wrote a weekly column, "On Biography," for The New York Sun and was...more

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Lillian Hellman & Joel McCrea

The April 2012 Turner Classic Movies Newsletter announces Joel McCrea month. He was a wonderful actor. I got to know him better while working on my biography of Lillian Hellman. He appears in a film she wrote, "These Three," which you can see on TCM. On the TCM website you can watch the original movie trailer plus a crucial scene in the film. Hellman rewrote her controversial play, "The Childre... read more »

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	Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson (Goodreads Author), Lisa Paddock 3.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Marilyn Monroe 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Rebecca West: A Life 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave: The Story of Martha Gellhorn 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to Her Work 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Higher Form Of Cannibalism?: Adventures In The Art And Politics Of Biography 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Biography: A User's Guide 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Hollywood Engima: Dana Andrews (Hollywood Legend Series) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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The Lion and the Journalist: The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop

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Carl Rollyson said: "I've begun reading this fascinating book. I was hooked during a conversation with the author. I'm always interested in books that deal with biographers and their subjects, and this treatment of the duo does not disappoint. I plan to make this book a...more "

May 22, 2012 10:05am · see review

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Carl Rollyson liked Brian's review of Caravaggio: " (This review originally appeared at the Washington Independent Review of Books) Being a tortured rock star is tough in any century. Case in point: Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the brilliant, brooding, bad boy of the 16th-century art world, w... " Read more of this review »
May 28, 2012 07:20pm · see review
Carl Rollyson made a comment on Hollywood Engima: Dana Andrews (Hollywood Legend Series) — Hollywood Enigma "To Jim Kane: I appreciate your review, one of the first I've seen. "
May 26, 2012 06:34am
Carl Rollyson made a comment on Hollywood Engima: Dana Andrews (Hollywood Legend Series) — Hollywood Enigma "To Jim Kane: I appreciate your review, one of the first I've seen. "
May 26, 2012 06:34am
Carl Rollyson added: Hollywood Engima: Dana Andrews (Hollywood Legend Series) by Carl Rollyson (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Carl Rollyson liked Jim's review of Hollywood Engima: " Note: I reviewed a galley copy of this book that was provided by University of Mississippi Press (www.upress.state.ms.us) via Net Galley (www.netgalley.com). It is to be released on September 4, 2012. I was not required to write a review but have... " Read more of this review »
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Carl Rollyson is currently reading: The Lion and the Journalist: The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop by Chip Bishop	My rating:
I've begun reading this fascinating book. I was hooked during a conversation with the author. I'm always interested in books that deal with biographers and their subjects, and this treatment of the duo does not disappoint. I plan to make this book a...more
May 22, 2012 10:05am · see review
Carl Rollyson added: Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff	My rating:
I loved the entertaining footnotes. A lost art?
May 21, 2012 09:01am · see review
Carl Rollyson added: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt	My rating:
A great book about how books are lost and found.
May 21, 2012 08:59am · see review
Carl Rollyson made a comment on Lillian Hellman & Joel McCrea: "Attended a wonderful talk by Alice Kessler-Harris at the Philadelphia Athaneum last night. Her biography of Lillian Hellman was well received. "
May 03, 2012 06:16am
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