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Carl Rollyson

Carl Rollyson, professor emeritus of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY, has published 14 biographies, including, in 2020, The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath.  His studies of biography include A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography and Biography: A User’s Guide.

Benjamin Moser’s Pulitzer Prize for Biography Is a Travesty

For two distinct yet intimately related reasons, we were appalled when we learned that Benjamin Moser had won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book Sontag: Her Life and Work (Ecco). First, as many critics have pointed out, what Moser ...