Carl Rollyson

magnoliatribune.com/2026/04/10/joa… Another young writer Faulkner mentored: Jean Stein. I tell their story in full for the first time here: upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faulkn…

April 11, 1952: Declines honorary doctorate from Tulane acknowledging the honor but stating such a degree should not be bestowed on someone who had not even graduated from grammar school amazon.com/Life-William-F…

April 11, 1945: put in charge of Defense Stamps at school. The next day she recorded her shock: “ROOSEVELT DIES!,” adding: “He died, like Lincoln, soon—very soon before the peace treaty and end of a long, cruel war!”amazon.com/The-Making-of-…

April 11, 1944: On radio program, “Everything for the Boys,” Ronald Colman recites Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee.” amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-…

Choosing to be a Jew even in the midst of the Holocaust. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

Sorry, couldn’t resist

I rescued many Wingfield letters lying at the bottom of a cabinet in home of actress Margaret Rawlings, where I was interviewing her for my Rebecca West biography. “You want the letters?” Rawlings asked. “Oh, yes,” I said, later depositing them at the University of Tulsa.

Cavafy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Sheila Wingfield. I wish I could live long enough to write about these three poets.

April 10, 1918: In New Haven, works as ledger clerk at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Willia…

April 10, 1944: obtains a Bette Davis autograph in Scouts, puts it in movie star scrapbook under pictures of her upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia…

@Gentleman_Ways The very qualities of Ronald Colman in "Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back." @crollyson (Wink) Give us too a relaxed focus. @DADiClementi @SugarpussOShea1

And they didn’t even need AI!

Short takes for only $4.99: amazon.com/American-Biogr…

April 9. 1944: Works in Granny’s garden on a “beautiful Easter day” with singing robins upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Ma…

April 9, 1936: On loan to RKO for $1000 a week to work on Gunga Din treatment and dialogue revision. amazon.com/William-Faulkn…

April 9, 1983: Channel 4: 11:05: Cynara: “Ronald Colman is as smoothly and touchingly convincing as ever as the happily-married barrister who gradually becomes inextricably entangled in a love affair with a working-class girl.” (Lincolnshire Echo). amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-…

Where Rebecca had her rendezvous with her lover, Francis Biddle, during the Nuremberg trials: Details: amazon.com/Rebecca-West-A…; audiobook under $5.00

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc… World War II, my mother, women welders and stunt riders in two new biographies

@bridgethester14 My pleasure.

@crollyson Thank you for responding!

Just received the copyedited ms for my book, Making the American Presidency: How Biographers Shape History. As soon as I have a publication date, I will let you know.

I’ll be doing a podcast on Friday with Doug Hess about my book, Marilyn Monroe Day by Day. I’ll post a link when it is available. In the meantime, here is the introduction to the book: open.substack.com/pub/carlrollys…