Carl Rollyson has written biographies on Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Rebecca West, and Susan Sontag. His titles include Biography Before Boswell , Reading Biography , Essays in Biography , Biography: An Annotated Bibliography , British Biography: A Reader , Lives of the Novelists , Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag , Marie Curie , The Literacy Legacy of Rebecca West , and American Biography .