American Isis
The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath

About Carl Rollyson

Carl Rollyson, a professor of journalism at Baruch College, the City University of New York, has written over forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of cultural icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, and Norman Mailer, to studies of American culture, genealogy, children's biography, film, and literary criticism. He has authored over five hundred 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. He wrote a column on biography for the New York Sun from 2004 to 2007 and reviews biographies regularly for the New York Observer, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Raleigh News & Observer, and the Kansas City Star. Carl is president emeritus of the International Rebecca West Society. His play, That Woman: Rebecca West Remembers, has been produced at Theatresource in New York City. He is also currently advisory editor for the Hollywood Legends series published by the University Press of Mississippi.