Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
‘The Sheik and I’ functions as the biography of an industry, with accounts of the actors, directors, producers, and screenwriters who collaborated with Ayres in the productions of her films.
The biography adds ‘context,’ a superb historical and sociological discussion of how and why Garbo did not fit Hollywood standards of beauty and then became the Hollywood standard of beauty.
In the 1980s, several of the reviewer’s editors deemed Monroe a shopworn subject. They, of course, misunderstood her perennial place in the American imagination.
While plenty of space is accorded to McCullers’s failing health and eccentricities, what comes through is her indomitability — a favorite Faulkner word.
The prolific author sometimes refers to herself as JCO, like an acronym for an industrial concern. In these letters, JCO is always on the job of writing. Meeting her seems almost invariably to be a pleasure.
As a war correspondent, Maggie Higgins understood that to compete with men, she had to use every resource at her disposal. She learned different lessons after becoming part of D.C.’s political scene.
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