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Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
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The biography's new title emphasizes that Rebecca West was a prophet - one not always appreciated in her own day. As early as 1917, she understood where the world was headed and realized that the revolution in Russia held out false hope. Because she took this view as a socialist, those on the left scorned her as an apostate, whereas she understood that Communism would result in a disaster for the British left.
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Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-08-2015
- Language: English
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Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Picasso has often been called the greatest artist of this century. This biography defines his greatness: his accomplishment and versatility as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, ceramicist, and designer. Most of the innovations in 20th century art are associated not only with his work but with the legend he built of himself as the quintessential modern artist.
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Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2015
- Language: English
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The Life of William Faulkner
- The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Philip J. Rodrigue
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
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Integrating Faulkner’s screenplays, fiction, and life, Rollyson argues that the novelist deserves to be reread not just as a literary figure but as a still-relevant force, especially in relation to issues of race, sexuality, and equality. The culmination of years of research in archives that have been largely ignored by previous biographers, The Life of William Faulkner offers a significant challenge and an essential contribution to Faulkner scholarship.
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The Life of William Faulkner
- The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934
- Narrated by: Philip J. Rodrigue
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written.
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2020
- Language: English
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Beautiful Exile
- The Life of Martha Gellhorn
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books have become classics. Her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and affairs with legendary lovers like H. G. Wells, and her relationship with two presidents, Roosevelt and Kennedy, reflect her campaigns against tyranny and deprivation, and her outrage at the corruption and cruelty of modern governments.
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Beautiful Exile
- The Life of Martha Gellhorn
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-05-2014
- Language: English
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Norman Mailer
- The Last Romantic
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Donny Baarns
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Carl Rollyson was Norman Mailer's first literary biographer to draw on unpublished letters and manuscripts as well as on interviews with the writer's friends and foes. Rollyson provides a full account of Mailer's college years, especially his fear of being drafted. Here are the sources of Mailer's mental crisis in the 1950s that led to the stabbing of his second wife, Adele. Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic gets at the sources of Mailer's obsession with violence while also portraying a major literary figure in the making.
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Norman Mailer
- The Last Romantic
- Narrated by: Donny Baarns
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2014
- Language: English
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Emily Dickinson
- Self-Discipline in the Service of Art
- By: Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 58 mins
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Emily Dickinson exemplified the virtue of self-discipline. She wrote poetry largely for her own pleasure, and to exercise and increase her creative talents. Very few of her poems were published during her own lifetime, yet we know that she wrote consistently - perhaps every day - over several decades. Poetry was her way of knowing herself and understanding the world.
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Emily Dickinson
- Self-Discipline in the Service of Art
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2015
- Language: English
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Thurgood Marshall: Perseverance for Justice
- By: Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 44 mins
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Thurgood Marshall was one of the original forces behind the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), one of the organizations that advocated the rights of African Americans in the 20th century. His pursuit of civil rights reached a highpoint when, as a lawyer, he helped the NAACP win Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in education in American public schools.
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Thurgood Marshall: Perseverance for Justice
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 09-02-2015
- Language: English
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Marie Curie
- Honesty in Science
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 53 mins
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Professional biographer Carl Rollyson has pioneered a new kind of biography for children and adults alike. His narrative of Marie Curie's life is rendered in simple, precise prose. Each chapter is designed to provoke further discussion and research into the life and career of one of the century's greatest scientists and - as Rollyson shows - one of the most important figures in human history.
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Marie Curie
- Honesty in Science
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2015
- Language: English
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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised, and Updated
- By: Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
- Narrated by: Chris Remo
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer’s life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag’s newly released private correspondence, including emails, and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best.
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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised, and Updated
- Narrated by: Chris Remo
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2019
- Language: English
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Understanding Susan Sontag
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Lesley Ann Fogle
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate her classic texts.
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Understanding Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Lesley Ann Fogle
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2017
- Language: English
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Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Rollyson accumulated what's now another book about Rebecca West. This new collection tells the story of how his biography got written, of what it means to think like a biographer, and why West's vision remains relevant. She's one of the great personalities and writers of the modern age, and one that we are just beginning to comprehend.
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Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2015
- Language: English
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Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave
- The Adventurous Life of America's Most Glamorous and Courageous War Correspondent
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Diedra O'Ree
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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The first biography of Martha Gellhorn, produced during her lifetime. This comprehensive biography provides crucial information about her early life in St. Louis, her travels abroad, her work for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, her meeting and subsequent storied marriage to Ernest Hemingway, and her decision to leave him and resume her career as novelist and war reporter.
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Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave
- The Adventurous Life of America's Most Glamorous and Courageous War Correspondent
- Narrated by: Diedra O'Ree
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2021
- Language: English
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Marilyn Monroe Day by Day
- A Timeline of People, Places, and Events
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Joe Formichella
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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In Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events, Carl Rollyson provides a documentary approach to the life and legend of this singular personality. With details of her childhood, her young adult years, her ascent to super-stardom, and the hour-by-hour moments leading to her tragic early death, this volume supplements - and, in some cases, corrects - the accounts of previous biographies.
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Marilyn Monroe Day by Day
- A Timeline of People, Places, and Events
- Narrated by: Joe Formichella
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-10-2019
- Language: English
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Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson shrewdly probes Faulkner's dynamic and changing uses of the past. Also taking advantage of his own work as a biographer, Rollyson has updated, revised, and expanded his original book - extending his dialogue with recent Faulkner critics.
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Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2019
- Language: English
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A Private Life of Michael Foot
- By: Carl E. Rollyson
- Narrated by: Bob Sterry
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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The late Michael Foot, once leader of the Labour party, lives on as a major figure in British political history, although he is best remembered as a fiery and eloquent standard-bearer for socialist beliefs and policies.
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A Private Life of Michael Foot
- Narrated by: Bob Sterry
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2017
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Serial Biographer
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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This memoir of a professional biographer's life tells the inside story of how he became interested in his subjects and reveals the mechanics of the trade: how to assemble proposals for publishers, conduct interviews and archival research, and joust with editors, subjects, and their literary estates. Other biographers have described their process but remained discrete, not wishing to offend their sources and supporters. This author has forgone such caution.
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Confessions of a Serial Biographer
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-07-2016
- Language: English
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Biography
- A User's Guide
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Andrew Firda
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Carl Rollyson's Biography: A User's Guide is an informative and entertaining text for those interested in biography. No aspect of the genre, from A to Z, goes uncovered: issues around authorized and unauthorized biography, censorship, libel, fair use, public domain (referred to as "PD" by publishers and editors), and a great deal more - including examples drawn from published biographies, as well as general and specific assessments of the biographer's art.
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Biography
- A User's Guide
- Narrated by: Andrew Firda
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2016
- Language: English
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British Biography
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Byrwec Ellison
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Biography as a literary genre is largely the product of the 18th century and of one seminal work, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Boswell's innovations revolutionized the genre and made it the target of suppression and censorship. He sought not only to memorialize a great man but also to reveal his flaws. Boswell reported long stretches of Johnson's conversation, noted his mannerisms, and in general gave an intimate picture such as no biography had ever before dared to attempt.
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British Biography
- Narrated by: Byrwec Ellison
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2016
- Language: English
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Reading Susan Sontag
- A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. One can ask for no better guidebook.
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Reading Susan Sontag
- A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2016
- Language: English
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