Carl Rollyson

About

Carl Rollyson is the author of Making the American Presidency: How Biographers Shape History as well as American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia PlathThe Last Days of Sylvia Plath, and The Making of Sylvia Plath.

Faulkner as Futurist

from America on the Brink, Volume 22, Number 3

For Faulkner, all of time existed as a moment, during which all could be changed: past, present, and future.

Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act

Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.

The Providential President

In spite of many differences, Trump like Washington has become a providential president.

Faulkner and Plath Go to a Play

The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.

Faulkner as Futurist

Faulkner’s treatment of the past means much for the nature of our future.