Female Icons

Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag

Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Female Icons by Carl Rollyson, iUniverse
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Carl Rollyson ISBN: 9780595802036
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: June 7, 2005
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Carl Rollyson
ISBN: 9780595802036
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: June 7, 2005
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

This volume represents more than twenty-five years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but also in much of the work he has subsequently done on Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and on the nature of biography itself.

This book includes a selection of Rollyson's New York Sun book reviews dealing with female icons such as Mary Stuart, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Bronts, Marie Curie, Harriet Tubman, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Plath. Rollyson's writing about icons has provoked him to question the process by which selves are defined. Discovering the shaping mechanisms of the self is simultaneously a way of understanding how biographies are built.

In the end, this book should be of interest not merely to devotees of Monroe, Sontag, and other icons but also to anyone curious about the nature of biography and the biographer.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This volume represents more than twenty-five years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but also in much of the work he has subsequently done on Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and on the nature of biography itself.

This book includes a selection of Rollyson's New York Sun book reviews dealing with female icons such as Mary Stuart, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Bronts, Marie Curie, Harriet Tubman, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Plath. Rollyson's writing about icons has provoked him to question the process by which selves are defined. Discovering the shaping mechanisms of the self is simultaneously a way of understanding how biographies are built.

In the end, this book should be of interest not merely to devotees of Monroe, Sontag, and other icons but also to anyone curious about the nature of biography and the biographer.

More books from iUniverse

Cover of the book I Remember Running by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book After the Honeymoon by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book The Night Shadow by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book I’M Still Here by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book A Walk-On Part in the War by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book Jehovah’S Windfall by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book Re-Entry by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book Sweet Age Before Reason by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book Hunt for the Wolf Clan by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book The Journey of the Nightisans by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book God Has No Blind Alleys by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book Pewzer’S Wake by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book Reaching Out by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book The Patriot Act by Carl Rollyson
Cover of the book The India Road by Carl Rollyson
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy