Carl Rollyson, remembrance
Carl Rollyson's contribution to Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023) on how Mailer, through The Armies of the Night and Marilyn, brought him to biography.
Carl Rollyson‘s contribution to Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (p. 85) credits Mailer with bringing him to biography: The Armies of the Night showed what nonfiction could do, and Marilyn showed how speculation joined to the factual record could build a biographical subject. “The answer to one biography is another biography.”
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