A University of Toronto Ph.D, Rollyson has published more than forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and Jill Craigie to studies of American culture, genealogy, children’s biography, film, and literary criticism. He has authored more than 500 articles on American and European literature and history.…
His forthcoming projects include a revised and updated edition of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Understanding Susan Sontag, Confessions of a Serial Biographer and This Alarming Paradox: A Life of William Faulkner.