Podcast #196 – Carl Rollyson
Veteran biographer and emeritus Baruch College journalism professor Carl Rollyson talks about his latest book, Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2, published by the University Press of Mississippi in August 2024. Rollyson’s impressive literary output—of mo
Biographers International Organization
November 22, 202430m 47s
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Show Notes
Veteran biographer and emeritus Baruch College journalism professor Carl Rollyson talks about his latest book, Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2, published by the University Press of Mississippi in August 2024. Rollyson’s impressive literary output—of more than 40 books—includes examinations of William Faulkner, Amy Lowell, Walter Brennan, Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer and Marilyn Monroe. He also coauthored Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated. Rollyson’s reviews of biographies have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and New Criterion, and he writes a twice weekly column on biography for the New York Sun. Carl Rollyson was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member John A. Farrell.
