Carl Rollyson Quote

Embarking on each new biography is like beginning the world anew, establishing—once again—a network of contacts and conspirators, and inciting the enmity of countless cronies and court whores who do their best to make the biographer seem unworthy of the approbation they have so acidulously sought from their literary sovereigns.

Carl Rollyson

Embarking on each new biography is like beginning the world anew, establishing—once again—a network of contacts and conspirators, and inciting the enmity of countless cronies and court whores who do their best to make the biographer seem unworthy of the approbation they have so acidulously sought from their literary sovereigns.

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About Carl Rollyson

Carl E. Rollyson is an American biographer and professor of journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York.