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November 13-December 12, 1944: Assigned to Mildred Pierce. On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; www.amazon.com/Life-William...
William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
November 13-December 12, 1944: Assigned to Mildred Pierce. On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; www.amazon.com/Life-William...
11/13/49: “As of today I have decided to keep a diary again…Somehow I have to keep and hold the rapture of being seventeen…I feel infinitely sad at the thought of all this time melting farther and father away from me as I grow older.” On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
The Making of Sylvia Plath
Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
11/13/49: “As of today I have decided to keep a diary again…Somehow I have to keep and hold the rapture of being seventeen…I feel infinitely sad at the thought of all this time melting farther and father away from me as I grow older.” On sale: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
I hope you can enroll
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I hope you can enroll
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Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act
Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just published: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
11/12/44: Sleeps late, misses Sunday School, cuts out paper dolls, plays piano, does homework, listens to The Great Gildersleeve, before bed looks over answers on the English colonies assigned for Social Studies class. Website sale on all my UPM titles: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1
Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
11/12/44: Sleeps late, misses Sunday School, cuts out paper dolls, plays piano, does homework, listens to The Great Gildersleeve, before bed looks over answers on the English colonies assigned for Social Studies class. Website sale on all my UPM titles: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
11/12/ 21: Describes garret, 4 flights up, close to Central Park, prefers the Village, having “fine time” working in the bookshop, visiting the Metropolitan Museum, riding 5th Avenue bus, charms women customers, with“elegant southern accent.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will... website sale
William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...
www.upress.state.ms.us
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
11/12/ 21: Describes garret, 4 flights up, close to Central Park, prefers the Village, having “fine time” working in the bookshop, visiting the Metropolitan Museum, riding 5th Avenue bus, charms women customers, with“elegant southern accent.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will... website sale
In case you missed it: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
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.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
In case you missed it: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
In case you missed it: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
The Providential President
In spite of many differences, Trump like Washington has become a providential president.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
In case you missed it: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
11/9/22: Obituary for Leslie Phillips one of the last actors to “sport an old-fashioned roué moustache” like Ronald Colman: “a thin elegant line accentuating the seductive smile.” (The Guardian). www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
Amazon.com: Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero eBook : Rollyson , Carl : Kindle Store
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November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
11/9/22: Obituary for Leslie Phillips one of the last actors to “sport an old-fashioned roué moustache” like Ronald Colman: “a thin elegant line accentuating the seductive smile.” (The Guardian). www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
It’s official: I will be getting a contract from the University of Virginia Press for a biography of Herman Melville.
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It’s official: I will be getting a contract from the University of Virginia Press for a biography of Herman Melville.
11/6/56: “I am so emotionally exhausted after this week, and the Hungarian and Suez affairs have depressed me terribly after reading the typed last words from Hungary yesterday before the Russians took over I was almost physically sick.” www.amazon.com/The-Making-o...
The Making of Sylvia Plath
Amazon.com: The Making of Sylvia Plath (Audible Audio Edition): Carl Rollyson, Danielle Mors, University Press of Mississippi: Audible Books & Originals
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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
11/6/56: “I am so emotionally exhausted after this week, and the Hungarian and Suez affairs have depressed me terribly after reading the typed last words from Hungary yesterday before the Russians took over I was almost physically sick.” www.amazon.com/The-Making-o...
November 5, 1930: Nation review of As I Lay Dying deplores “phosphorescent rottenness of the family.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/William-Faulkner-Day-by-Day
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
November 5, 1930: Nation review of As I Lay Dying deplores “phosphorescent rottenness of the family.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/William-Faulkner-Day-by-Day
November 5, 1967: “Former actress, Benita Hume, 60, wife of George Sanders and widow of Ronald Colman, died Wednesday after a long illness, relatives revealed today.” (Sunday, New York Daily News).
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
November 5, 1967: “Former actress, Benita Hume, 60, wife of George Sanders and widow of Ronald Colman, died Wednesday after a long illness, relatives revealed today.” (Sunday, New York Daily News).
November 5, 1940: Otto Plath dies.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
November 5, 1940: Otto Plath dies.
November 13, 1914: Army Medical Board report: Colman transferred to hospital by ambulance suffering from a “contusion of r. ankle.” www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
Amazon.com: Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero eBook : Rollyson , Carl : Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
November 13, 1914: Army Medical Board report: Colman transferred to hospital by ambulance suffering from a “contusion of r. ankle.” www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
11/3/50: Cautions Joan Willams about family claims on her: “People need trouble, fret, a little of frustration, to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do””https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/William-Faulkner-Day-by-Day
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
11/3/50: Cautions Joan Willams about family claims on her: “People need trouble, fret, a little of frustration, to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do””https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/William-Faulkner-Day-by-Day
11/2/46: At Ruthie Freeman’s, sees Janie Gets Married, on the porch hammock with Dave, Wayne, Ruthie and Wendell: “I felt quite popular: When Wayne puts his arm around me, Dave became very annoying and tried it too. ”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia-Plath-Day-by-Day-Volume-1
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
11/2/46: At Ruthie Freeman’s, sees Janie Gets Married, on the porch hammock with Dave, Wayne, Ruthie and Wendell: “I felt quite popular: When Wayne puts his arm around me, Dave became very annoying and tried it too. ”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia-Plath-Day-by-Day-Volume-1
November 2-3, 1935: WF and his brother Dean perform as “The Flying Faulkners” in an air show. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; more on Faulkner and flying: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...
William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...
www.upress.state.ms.us
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
November 2-3, 1935: WF and his brother Dean perform as “The Flying Faulkners” in an air show. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; more on Faulkner and flying: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...
If I Were King put Colman at the apogee of his power as a figure at home with both princes and the people they rule. Herbert Cohn in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (November 2, 1938) called Colman’s Francois Villon a “complex composite of philosopher, statesman, crusader and charming lover,”
November 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
If I Were King put Colman at the apogee of his power as a figure at home with both princes and the people they rule. Herbert Cohn in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (November 2, 1938) called Colman’s Francois Villon a “complex composite of philosopher, statesman, crusader and charming lover,”
November 1: Marilyn appears for color tests for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She is photographed at the piano with Jane Russell; again with Russell, conferring on the script; and meeting with Jack Cole, their choreographer. www.amazon.com/Marilyn-Monr...
Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events
Amazon.com: Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events (Audible Audio Edition): Carl Rollyson, Joe Formichella, Carl Rollyson: Audible Books & Originals
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November 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
November 1: Marilyn appears for color tests for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She is photographed at the piano with Jane Russell; again with Russell, conferring on the script; and meeting with Jack Cole, their choreographer. www.amazon.com/Marilyn-Monr...
November 1, 1936: The Charlotte News reviewer of Absalom, Absalom! admits to being “lost and terrified in the shadows and thunders” of Faulkner’s “involved prose” and yet calls the novel his “master work.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...
William Faulkner Day by Day
William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...
www.upress.state.ms.us
November 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
November 1, 1936: The Charlotte News reviewer of Absalom, Absalom! admits to being “lost and terrified in the shadows and thunders” of Faulkner’s “involved prose” and yet calls the novel his “master work.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...