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February 2, 2021: “Ronald Colman at 130: A Heritage to Cherish and Bequeath”: parkridgeclassicfilm.com/2021/02/02/r...
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February 2, 2026 at 11:37 AM
February 2, 2021: “Ronald Colman at 130: A Heritage to Cherish and Bequeath”: parkridgeclassicfilm.com/2021/02/02/r...
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1/2/47: scrapbook labeled in “old English letters”: “Sylvia Plath - 1947.” Pastes in snapshots of herself as a child, of friends, fills up “every empty space with “a more or less running account of my life history and descriptions of my experiences.” 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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February 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
1/2/47: scrapbook labeled in “old English letters”: “Sylvia Plath - 1947.” Pastes in snapshots of herself as a child, of friends, fills up “every empty space with “a more or less running account of my life history and descriptions of my experiences.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
2/1/55: “Dearest Beautiful Pretty Miss [Jean] Stein being your sole owner & proprietor takes up all my time.” Asleep or awake, it didn’t matter: “I love you.” He dreamed about her, but wanted to wake up, look at her, and then go back to sleep again. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...
Faulkner On and Off the Page
Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work. Faulkner’s view of himself and his own family was mer...
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February 1, 2026 at 11:36 AM
2/1/55: “Dearest Beautiful Pretty Miss [Jean] Stein being your sole owner & proprietor takes up all my time.” Asleep or awake, it didn’t matter: “I love you.” He dreamed about her, but wanted to wake up, look at her, and then go back to sleep again. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...
1/31/43: AP writer describes an “unCalifornia home“on a rise of Beverly Hills, yes, but there isn’t a palm tree in sight. Instead, what first greets you is an English-style garden, with old trees, carefully-tended flower beds, and wide stretches of lawn.”
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Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
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January 31, 2026 at 1:03 PM
1/31/43: AP writer describes an “unCalifornia home“on a rise of Beverly Hills, yes, but there isn’t a palm tree in sight. Instead, what first greets you is an English-style garden, with old trees, carefully-tended flower beds, and wide stretches of lawn.”
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1/31/47: Her diary: “who knows someday you might be in print. Once I start to write it is so hard to stop. There are so many things that I feel deeply about and want to get written down in here before it is to [sic] late and they have slipped away.”
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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...
www.upress.state.ms.us
January 31, 2026 at 12:57 PM
1/31/47: Her diary: “who knows someday you might be in print. Once I start to write it is so hard to stop. There are so many things that I feel deeply about and want to get written down in here before it is to [sic] late and they have slipped away.”
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
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January 30, 1963: David Manchin, Heinemann editor of The Bell Jar, writes to congratulate Sylvia on the “excellent reviews that are coming your way.” He asks if they can meet, and they agree on February 12. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2
Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetr...
www.upress.state.ms.us
January 30, 2026 at 11:28 AM
January 30, 1963: David Manchin, Heinemann editor of The Bell Jar, writes to congratulate Sylvia on the “excellent reviews that are coming your way.” He asks if they can meet, and they agree on February 12. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
A Frieda Hughes update www.kemifilani.ng/breaking-new...
Frieda Hughes Biography, Updates, Children, Husband, Poems, Book, Sylvia Plath - Kemi Filani News
Frieda Hughes Biography, Updates, Children, Husband, Poems, Book, Sylvia Plath - Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) is an English-Australian poet, painter, children's author, illustrator, and e...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:07 AM
A Frieda Hughes update www.kemifilani.ng/breaking-new...
January 29, 1958: Works on Chapter 3 of The Mansion.
President Darden of the University of Virginia rejects the proposal that Faulkner be appointed a permanent member of the faculty. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...
President Darden of the University of Virginia rejects the proposal that Faulkner be appointed a permanent member of the faculty. 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...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:50 AM
January 29, 1958: Works on Chapter 3 of The Mansion.
President Darden of the University of Virginia rejects the proposal that Faulkner be appointed a permanent member of the faculty. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...
President Darden of the University of Virginia rejects the proposal that Faulkner be appointed a permanent member of the faculty. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...
January 29, 1947: Calls basketball her “favorite sport. It is so exciting when the ball teeters breathlessly on the edge of the basket!”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia-Plath-Day-by-Day-Volume-1
January 29, 2026 at 10:46 AM
January 29, 1947: Calls basketball her “favorite sport. It is so exciting when the ball teeters breathlessly on the edge of the basket!”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia-Plath-Day-by-Day-Volume-1
1/29/90: “…50 years since Ronald Colman…clapped his eyes on the Ojai Valley…Vista Point…trash can was overflowing and a power line obscured the view. But…easy to understand that Shangri-La is not so much one view as many.” “Shangri-La, The American Way” Newsday
January 29, 2026 at 10:42 AM
1/29/90: “…50 years since Ronald Colman…clapped his eyes on the Ojai Valley…Vista Point…trash can was overflowing and a power line obscured the view. But…easy to understand that Shangri-La is not so much one view as many.” “Shangri-La, The American Way” Newsday
1/26/53: Thinks of graduate school in philosophy or psychology or employment in publishing, or in an office, or a Fulbright to England, a year of graduate school perhaps at Columbia, Radcliffe, or Johns Hopkins, a job, marriage 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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January 26, 2026 at 11:54 AM
1/26/53: Thinks of graduate school in philosophy or psychology or employment in publishing, or in an office, or a Fulbright to England, a year of graduate school perhaps at Columbia, Radcliffe, or Johns Hopkins, a job, marriage www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
1/ 26/55, Jean Stein noted their discussion her coming for a weekend in Oxford. She teased him about his servants. Wouldn’t they be upset? He seemed almost angry when he said: “I wouldn’t have any Nigras that I couldn’t control.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faulkner-On-and-Off-the-Page
January 26, 2026 at 11:48 AM
1/ 26/55, Jean Stein noted their discussion her coming for a weekend in Oxford. She teased him about his servants. Wouldn’t they be upset? He seemed almost angry when he said: “I wouldn’t have any Nigras that I couldn’t control.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faulkner-On-and-Off-the-Page
Los Angeles Examiner (January 26, 1925): “The shadings of emotion, the assumption of a varied and brilliant range of characterizations and sincerity and conviction in every move place Colman high in the site of dramatic figures in the cinema world.”
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Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
Amazon.com: Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero eBook : Rollyson , Carl : Kindle Store
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January 26, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Los Angeles Examiner (January 26, 1925): “The shadings of emotion, the assumption of a varied and brilliant range of characterizations and sincerity and conviction in every move place Colman high in the site of dramatic figures in the cinema world.”
www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
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January 25, 1981: “There’s still a nostalgia for charm and gentleness with fortitude, and Colman maintains it well.” (Norman K. Dorn, “Colman’s Touch in Classic Roles,” San Francisco Examiner). www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
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January 25, 2026 at 11:02 AM
January 25, 1981: “There’s still a nostalgia for charm and gentleness with fortitude, and Colman maintains it well.” (Norman K. Dorn, “Colman’s Touch in Classic Roles,” San Francisco Examiner). www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...
January 25, 1945: Writes to Joe C. Brown, an African American school teacher, mentioning their talk three years earlier in front of Neilson’s store on the Oxford Square and his disappointment that Brown has not sent him his poetry. www.amazon.com/William-Faul...
William Faulkner Day by Day
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January 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM
January 25, 1945: Writes to Joe C. Brown, an African American school teacher, mentioning their talk three years earlier in front of Neilson’s store on the Oxford Square and his disappointment that Brown has not sent him his poetry. www.amazon.com/William-Faul...
I’m collecting material for a book about Detroit from the 1920s when my mother Polish family arrived to the 1940s when my father was on the police force to my growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, meeting James Allen Jones my second father: youtu.be/nsfDA2IDoyQ?...
100-year-old Detroit veteran, educator inspiring others
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January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I’m collecting material for a book about Detroit from the 1920s when my mother Polish family arrived to the 1940s when my father was on the police force to my growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, meeting James Allen Jones my second father: youtu.be/nsfDA2IDoyQ?...
1/24/54 Rome: “Happy to be out of snowy Switzerland. 1/24/44: Works on “Roman People Places, and Things”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/William-Faulkner-Day-by-Day; 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...
www.upress.state.ms.us
January 24, 2026 at 11:19 AM
1/24/54 Rome: “Happy to be out of snowy Switzerland. 1/24/44: Works on “Roman People Places, and Things”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/William-Faulkner-Day-by-Day; www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
Just published, my review of three biographies of royal.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Just published, my review of three biographies of royal.
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January 23, 1951: Writes to Joan Williams presenting himself as a sort of Cyrano figure. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; “BORN TO WRITE! Sylvia Plath, 17, really works at writing,” calls her “The little Wellesley, Mass blonde,” Peoria Illinois Star. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
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
January 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM
January 23, 1951: Writes to Joan Williams presenting himself as a sort of Cyrano figure. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; “BORN TO WRITE! Sylvia Plath, 17, really works at writing,” calls her “The little Wellesley, Mass blonde,” Peoria Illinois Star. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...
Mentions reading Graham Greene’s novel, The End of the Affair, “for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” www.amazon.com/William-Faul...
William Faulkner Day by Day
Amazon.com: William Faulkner Day by Day (Audible Audio Edition): Carl Rollyson, David Beveridge, Carl Rollyson: Books
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January 22, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Mentions reading Graham Greene’s novel, The End of the Affair, “for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” www.amazon.com/William-Faul...
I had many talks about Orwell with Michael Foot, an editor and contributor to Tribune, including a very funny meeting between Orwell and Arthur Koestler, and also some talk about Orwell’s widow, Sonia. www.amazon.com/Private-Life...
A Private Life of Michael Foot
Amazon.com: A Private Life of Michael Foot (Audible Audio Edition): Carl E. Rollyson, Bob Sterry, Carl Rollyson: Audible Books & Originals
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January 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I had many talks about Orwell with Michael Foot, an editor and contributor to Tribune, including a very funny meeting between Orwell and Arthur Koestler, and also some talk about Orwell’s widow, Sonia. www.amazon.com/Private-Life...
My most popular download this month: www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Ex...
Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn
Amazon.com: Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn (Audible Audio Edition): Carl Rollyson, John Stamper, Carl Rollyson: Books
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January 22, 2026 at 10:50 AM
My most popular download this month: www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Ex...
January 21, 1972: “Almost the first thing Richard Hough learned when he went to have tea with Ronald Colman was that nobody’s ever called him Ronnie. Ronald, yes, to a very few close friends. Otherwise, he was Mr. Colman.” (London Evening Standard)
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Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
Amazon.com: Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero eBook : Rollyson , Carl : Kindle Store
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January 21, 2026 at 11:11 AM
January 21, 1972: “Almost the first thing Richard Hough learned when he went to have tea with Ronald Colman was that nobody’s ever called him Ronnie. Ronald, yes, to a very few close friends. Otherwise, he was Mr. Colman.” (London Evening Standard)
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January 20, 1945: Premiere of To Have and Have Not with a writing credit for Faulkner. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...
January 20, 2026 at 10:52 AM
January 20, 1945: Premiere of To Have and Have Not with a writing credit for Faulkner. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...