Carl E. Rollyson is an American biographer and professor of journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York. Selected publications Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath The Last Days of Sylvia Plath The Life of William Faulkner, volume 1: The Past is Never Dead (1897-1934) The Life of William Faulkner, volume 2: This Alarming Paradox (1935-1962) Reading Biography A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography Biography: A User’s Guide Lives of the Novelists British Biography: A Reader Understanding Susan Sontag Confessions of a Serial Biographer A Private Life of Michael Foot A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan Marilyn Monroe: Day by Day Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews Lillian Hellman: Her Life and Legend Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn Reading Susan Sontag Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays To Be A Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie Essays in Biography Pablo Picasso: A Biography For Beginners References External links http://www.carlrollyson.com/works.htm Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American biographers Baruch College faculty