CARL ROLLYSON
Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
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Giving Sanora Babb Her Due
Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s biography is not merely a kind of restitution but a thrilling recovery of Babb and the world she portrayed so convincingly in her novels, stories, and poetry.
Biographer of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Uses a Novelist’s Tools To Portray Their Romance
Camille Peri is an evocative writer, and perhaps that is why so many reviewers have hailed this biography as one of the year’s best. The craving to be right there with Fanny has apparently seduced many readers.
An Ancient Murder Mystery: Why Socrates Had To Die
Why do we have only Socrates’s defense of himself in Plato’s words, and no record at all of what the prosecutors said? In Matt Gatton’s view of the case, there has been a coverup.
Cleopatra Times Seven: Why Haven’t We Heard More About the Queens of Egypt?
As Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones explains in his Epilogue, male scholars have viewed the Cleopatras with some repugnance for playing the power game, which apparently they regarded as unladylike.
Women Who Weave Themselves Into History
The book is not simply an account of remarkable women. Women, in general, the author argues, ‘helped to make antiquity as we know it. They were creators of history.’
What Happens When Women Take the Lead
As comprehensive as the organization of this book seems, the editors suggest that yet another edition could be written. Why not make ‘Women and Leadership’ a multi-volume enterprise? I have some suggestions.
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