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, unwhol
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 u
This volume surveys the range of Sontag's work. For each piece, Rollyson (English, Baruch College, NY) provides a synopsis, a short section on "Sontag reading Sontag," and a critical analysis of the
