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Beautiful Exile
- The Life of Martha Gellhorn
- Written 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: 2014-05-27
- Language: English
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Marie Curie
- Honesty in Science
- Written 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: 2015-03-03
- Language: English
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Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays
- Written 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: 2015-10-08
- Language: English
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Understanding Susan Sontag
- Written 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: 2017-04-10
- Language: English
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Lives of the Novelists
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Thomas D. Hand
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Rollyson proposes a number of apologias for biography, including the thought that in the right hands the literary biography is a continuation of the writer's work and life. In such instances, there seems to be a symbiosis between the biographer and subject. In other cases, biographies spearhead the rediscovery of important writers. He rejects the idea that literary figures are not good subjects for biography because they are not men and women of action.
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Lives of the Novelists
- Narrated by: Thomas D. Hand
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-21
- Language: English
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Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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From this comprehensive, yet critically measured wealth of material, Rollyson offers a distinctive and insightful portrait of Marilyn Monroe, highlighted by new perspectives that depict the central importance of acting to the authentic aspects of her being.
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Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-03
- Language: English
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Hollywood Enigma
- Dana Andrews, Hollywood Legends
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, and most important of all, Gene Tierney, with whom he did five films.
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Hollywood Enigma
- Dana Andrews, Hollywood Legends
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2014-11-26
- Language: English
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To Be a Woman
- The Life of Jill Craigie
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
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Jill Craigie - filmmaker, writer, pioneering feminist, and devoted wife to former Labour leader Michael Foot - led an extraordinary life. Strikingly attractive, fiercely independent, and politically radical, Craigie established a reputation as a filmmaker with her 1944 film Out of Chaos, becoming the first female director to gain national attention.
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To Be a Woman
- The Life of Jill Craigie
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-07-02
- Language: English
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Lillian Hellman
- Her Life and Legend
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
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He provides entertaining and informative accounts of her feud with Mary McCarthy, and her many love affairs and surprising friendships. He also provides a provocative and compelling portrayal of this complex and brilliant woman, who was called everything from a "viper" and "a goddam liar" to "an empathetic genius with a highly original and penetrating mind." Near death, Hellman spoke of being blocked; this biography will show what got in her way.
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Lillian Hellman
- Her Life and Legend
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-31
- Language: English
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Biography
- A User's Guide
- Written 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: 2016-05-09
- Language: English
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Reading Biography
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Jonathan R. Clauson
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Most book reviewers know very little about the history or the art of biography. Indeed, if there is any art in biography, it is the rare reviewer that acknowledges it or knows how to discuss it. Usually the reviewer regards biography as an occasion to wax eloquent about what he or she thinks of the subject. Little space, if any, is devoted to the biography's structure or style, to the biographer's peculiar problems, or to how the biography relates to others about the same subject.
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Reading Biography
- Narrated by: Jonathan R. Clauson
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2015-09-21
- Language: English
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Norman Mailer
- The Last Romantic
- Written 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: 2014-02-18
- Language: English
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Essays in Biography
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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An essay in biography, Rollyson argues, is an effort to comprehend a life that is inherently incomplete and subject to revision. Many of the facts about a biographical subject's life that are blandly presented in reference books have been discovered by biographers at great cost to their reputations. With the history of biography as a censored genre in mind, he encourages consumers of biography to be critical of the biographies they come across - no matter whether those biographies are book-length narratives or short encyclopedia entries.
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Essays in Biography
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-06
- Language: English
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American Biography
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Keith Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Too many biographers, he believes, evince no interest in the biographical tradition. Concerned only with possession of their subjects, their proprietorial attitude deforms not only their biographies but also the genre itself. If a biography is reviewed badly (receiving hardly more than a summary of the subject's life with a perfunctory nod to the biographer), it is because the biographical tradition has been disregarded or discounted. This book, in other words, has been created on the behalf of biography, a genre that still awaits a full vindication.
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American Biography
- Narrated by: Keith Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2015-09-28
- Language: English
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Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl
- Written 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: 2015-08-26
- Language: English
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British Biography
- Written 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: 2016-04-13
- Language: English
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William Faulkner Day by Day
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: David Beveridge
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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Spanning from the 1825 birth of Faulkner’s great-grandfather to Faulkner’s death 137 years later to the day, author and biographer Carl Rollyson presents for the first time a complete portrait of Faulkner’s life untethered from any one biographical or critical narrative. Presented as a chronology of events without comment, this book is accompanied by an extensive list of principal personages and is supported by extensive archival research and interviews.
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William Faulkner Day by Day
- Narrated by: David Beveridge
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-07
- Language: English
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