The Other Woman: A Review of "The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill"

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Published: Oct 27, 2022
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Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Review, Book Review

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Carl Rollyson

Abstract

Book review of The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022): Volume 14
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The Other Woman: Work on Assia Wevill by Carl Rollyson
Author Biography

Carl Rollyson

Carl Rollyson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He is at work on two volumes of Sylvia Plath Day by Day and The Making of Sylvia Plath for University Press of Mississippi. In the fall of 2022, University Press of Mississippi will publish William Faulkner Day by Day. He is the author of Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1986); Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy (1998); Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave: The Life of Martha Gellhorn (1990); The Lives of Norman Mailer (1990); Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century (1994); Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon (2000); Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn (revised and updated, 2002); To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie (2005); Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic (revised and updated, 2008); Lillian Hellman: Her Life and Legend (revised and updated, 2008); Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews (2012); American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath (2013); Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography (2013); Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, revised and updated (2014); A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan (2015); A Private Life of Michael Foot (2015); Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, revised and updated (2016); Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl (revised and updated, 2017);  The Last Days of Sylvia Plath (March 2020) and The Life of William Faulkner, volume 1 (March 2020); volume 2 (September 2020). He has also published young adult biographies: Marie Curie: Honesty in Science (2004); Thurgood Marshall: Perseverance for Justice (2009); Emily Dickinson: Self-Discipline in the Service of Art (2009); Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners (2009). His books about biography include Reading Biography (2004); Essays in Biography (2005); Lives of the Novelists (2005); British Biography: A Reader (2005); A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography (2005); American Biography (2006); Biography: A User’s Guide (2008) and Confessions of a Serial Biographer (2016); Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries (2010); Biography: An Annotated Bibliography (2016). His reviews of biographies have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, University Bookman; The Weekly Standard, The New Criterion, and other publications. Podcast: https://anchor.fm/carl-rollyson