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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Carl Rollyson was Norman Mailer's first literary biographer to draw on unpublished letters and manuscripts as well as on interviews with the writer's friends and foes.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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Marilyn Monroe Day by Day
- A Timeline of People, Places, and Events
- Written 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: 2019-10-07
- Language: English
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Reading Susan Sontag
- A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- Written 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: 2016-04-04
- Language: English
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Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners
- Written 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: 2015-02-06
- Language: English
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A Private Life of Michael Foot
- Written 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: 2017-04-05
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Serial Biographer
- Written 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: 2016-07-26
- Language: English
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A Higher Form of Cannibalism?
- Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography
- Written by: Carl E. Rollyson
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Since Wilde's condemnation of modern biography, the genre would appear to have accelerated its descent into bad taste. As Carl Rollyson points out, writers as various as Rebecca West, Ted Hughes, and Joyce Carol Oates have deplored biographers' tendency to cut up lives and render the bloody data so as to make their subjects seem unhealthy, unwholesome, and unsound. Janet Malcolm has compared biographers to burglars; modern novels feature the biographer as grave robber and victimizer.
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A Higher Form of Cannibalism?
- Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-25
- Language: English
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A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan
- Hollywood Legends Series
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Neil Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Rollyson fully explores Brennan's work with Hollywood's greatest directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today. His conservative politics, which grew out of his New England upbringing and his devout Catholicism, receive meticulous attention and a balanced assessment in A Real American Character.
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A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan
- Hollywood Legends Series
- Narrated by: Neil Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-23
- Language: English
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Amy Lowell Anew
- A Biography
- Written by: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the "new poetry" that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I.
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Amy Lowell Anew
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-18
- Language: English
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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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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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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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