Best Selling Books by Rosemary Sullivan

Plutarch Award Winner and Boston Globe Best Book of the Year: An “extraordinary” biography of the Soviet dictator’s daughter, Svetlana (The Washington Post). National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist PEN Literary Award Finalist New York Times Notable Book Washington Post Notable Book Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and oppression that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy. Her mother committed suicide, and her father’s purges claimed the lives of aunts and uncles; he also exiled her lover to Siberia. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father’s brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States—leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father’s regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana’s daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana’s incredible life in a masterful account both epic in scope and of unprecedented intimacy. Illustrated with photographs “Alliluyeva [proves] a fascinating person not simply because of her name but because she was a willful, intelligent, passionate woman who resisted being gawked at as a freak of history: the monster’s pretty daughter.” —The Wall Street Journal “Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review

Cuba: Grace Under Pressureturns to Cuba with fresh eyes, suspending the preconceptions, and entering Cuba through its art, its culture and its people. Recording of local life, through the prose of Rosemary Sullivan and the photographs of Malcolm David Batty, Cuba: Grace under Pressurecaptures the job and fierce independence of a people who clearly love their country.

A New York Times Bestseller Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works—journalism, books, plays and novels—devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years—and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door. With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents—some never before seen—and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest—and came to a shocking conclusion. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.

"The price of life is pain, since the price of comfort is damnation." Sensuously beautiful, intensely passionate, generous to a fault -- and one of the century''s most brilliant writers of poetic prose -- Elizabeth Smart carved her own destiny through sheer determination, strength and perserverance. In By Heart, the first biography of Smart, Rosemary Sullivan recounts the author''s childhood in Ottawa as the second daughter of an affluent and well-connected family. Inspired by romantic notions of rebellion, Smart rejected what she perceived to be a colonistic literary community and entered a long period of self-imposed exile, desperate to escape family and country, and willing to sacrifice both wealth and propriety in favour of freedom. During her frequent trips to Europe, New York, California and Mexico, Smart came to know many of the important writers of the day, including W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Lawrence Durrell. While browsing in a London bookstore, she discovered the poetry of George Barker and instantly fell in love with the married poet. They met. Thus began one of the most intense, extraordinary and scandalous love affairs of our time. Their passionate and troubled relationship inspired Smart''s By Grand Central Station, I Sat Down and Wept, which critic Brigid Bronphy has called one of the world''s half dozen masterpieces of poetic prose. Partly because of the difficulties in single-handedly raising the four children she had with George Barker, and partly because of her own lack of confidence, it would be thirty-two years before Smart published a second novel. By Heart explores the career of a woman writer in the 1940s: the struggle to speak when silence is seductive, the battle against a profound sense of inadequacy, the release and elation that comes out of the pain of writing. The life of Elizabeth Smart is a story of extremes, of life as the supreme fiction. As Smart asks in her final journals, "Can I be contented with my lot? Well, I danced."

An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence From Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today’s headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O’Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harassment, transgender violence, intersectionality, and the #MeToo movement. Contributors provide a fresh, informed perspective on gender violence, in all of its various forms. With twenty-nine new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. A trailblazing text, Gender Violence, Third Edition is an essential read for students, activists, and others.

International award-winning and best-selling author, Canadian cultural icon, feminist role model, "man-hater," wife, mother, private citizen and household name -- who is Margaret Atwood? Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning literary biographer, has penned The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out, the first portrait of Canada''s most famous novelist, focusing on her childhood and formative years as a writer and the generation she grew up in. When Margaret Atwood was a little girl in 1949, she saw a movie called The Red Shoes. It is the story of a beautiful young woman who becomes a famous ballerina, but commits suicide when she cannot satisfy one man, who wants her to devote her entire life to her art, and another who loves her, but subjugates her to become his muse and inspiration. She struggles to choose art, but the choice eventually destroys her. Margaret Atwood remembers being devastated by this movie but unlike many young girls of her time, she escaped its underlying message. Always sustained by a strong sense of self, Atwood would achieve a meteoric literary career. Yet a nurturing sense of self-confidence is just one fascinating side of our most famous literary figure, as examined in Rosemary Sullivan''s latest biography. The Red Shoes is not a simple biography but a portrait of a complex, intriguing woman and her generation. The seventies in Canada was the decade of fierce nationalist debate, a period during which Canada''s social imagination was creating a new tradition. Suddenly everyone, from Robertson Davies to Margaret Laurence was talking, and writing, about a Canadian cultural identity. Margaret Atwood was no exception. For despite her tremendous success that transcends the literary community, catapulting into the realm of a "household name," Margaret Atwood has remained very much a private person with a public persona. Rosemary Sullivan reveals the discrepancy between Atwood''s cool, acerbic, public image and the down-to-earth, straight-dealing and generous woman who actually writes the books. Throughout, she weaves the issues of female creativity, authority and autonomy set against the backdrop of a generation of women coming of age during one of the most radically shifting times in contemporary history.

Rosemary Sullivan is the preeminent literary biographer in Canada, having won several major awards, including the Governor General''s Award, for her work. She has written about Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Smart, Theodore Roethke and Gwendolyn MacEwan. But in addition to the books she has written, she has penned hundreds of essays, memoirs and travel pieces. This collection brings together the best of these pieces. In these 17 essays, Rosemary Sullivan focuses on Atwood''s childhood, meeting the eccentric and enigmatic Elizabeth Smart and hooking up with the boisterous Canadian poet Al Purdy. She also writes about the life of a literary biographer, what it takes to put together an anthology, like in Cuba, human rights and feminist issues. The writing is held together by Rosemary Sullivan''s own personal stamp and personality. At times, the work is lyrical, which reflects the author''s poetic background. Other times, Sullivan plays the scholar, but she is never pedantic. The work is lively, insightful and illuminating.

The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of the Third Reich. Suddenly, thousands of artists, scientists and other intellectuals feared for their lives. The Emergency Rescue Committee, based in New York, compiled a list of two hundred people it considered the most endangered, including artists and writers André Breton, Max Ernst and Benjamin Péret. The committee sent Varian Fry to set up its headquarters in Marseilles, with the aim of helping these artists to escape. A number of them were sheltered at the Villa Air-Bel. Amidst the chaos and terror of wartime France, the villa became an oasis of calm, and a centre of creativity. Rosemary Sullivan explores the diaries, memoirs and letters of the individuals involved as she uncovers their private worlds and the web of relationships they developed. Central to her task is to understand what it must feel like to move from freedom to occupation: to feel threatened, administered, restrained. Villa Air-Bel brilliantly dramatizes the slow, relentless process by which ordinary lives were turned into lives lived in terror. In the end every artist in the house, as well as two thousand others, found asylum outside of France through the courageous intervention of Fry and his committee.

From the author of the Governor General''s Award winner Shadow Maker and the Hilary Weston Writers'' Trust Prize winner Stalin''s Daughter More than thirty years after the publication of The Handmaid''s Tale, Margaret Atwood, international award-winning and bestselling author, continues to be a household name. Now, the TV adaptation of the novel has turned Atwood''s handmaids into a symbol around the globe. But who is Margaret Atwood? Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning biographer and poet, has penned the first portrait of Canada''s most famous novelist, a woman who helped to shatter the paradigm of the artist as exclusively male. In Margaret Atwood: Starting Out, Rosemary Sullivan explores the trajectory of a remarkable writer''s career. She focuses on Atwood''s formative years through to the late 1970s, when the major elements of Atwood''s life--the publication of Surfacing, Power Politics, and The Edible Woman; her relationship with writer Graeme Gibson; the birth of her daughter; and her focus on Canadian culture--are set in place. A stunning blend of narrative and meditation, of discovery and insight, Margaret Atwood: Starting Out is a major portrait of one of Canada''s most provocative writers who is out ahead, throwing back clues about the pleasure and pitfalls of being human. "An exemplary work of literary biography." --Toronto Star

Think of Torch Songs and the Tango. Think of films such as Casablanca and The English Patient, of novels such as Wuthering Heights and Rebecca. Think of romantic, obsessive love, the hot bed of passion we fall into, the emotion we, mistakenly, think of as true love. This is the subject of Rosemary Sullivan''s provocative and fascinating new book Labyrinth of Desire.

Tom Tom is an engaging contemporary story that traces a day in the life of a small boy living in a typical Aboriginal community in the Top End of the Northern Territory. It follows the adventures of Tom Tom as he goes to preschool, eats lunch with Granny Annie in the bottom camp, swims in the Lemonade Springs in the afternoon and spends the night with Granny May and grandfather Jo in the top camp. Rosemary Sullivan''s simple text and Dee Huxley''s vivid illustrations captures the warmth and security of Tom Tom''s world as he moves freely within his community from relative to another. As a pre-school teacher working in remote Aboriginal communities for more than 17 years, Rosemary Sullivan says- ''Tom Tom was inspired by the lives of many indigenous children in the Top End and the importance of family and interconnectedness in Aboriginal life.''

There is no doubt Rosemary Sullivan is a biographer of extraordinary talent. Her first biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart: A Life was a bestseller and nominated for a Governor General’s Award. Her third biography, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood, Starting Out, was also a highly acclaimed national bestseller. And her second, Shadow Maker, won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Non-Fiction, the City of Toronto Book Award and the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography. Now part of the PerennialCanada library, Shadow Maker reveals the many faces of Gwendolyn MacEwen, the magical and mesmerizing Canadian poet who died suddenly at the age of 46.

Spanning Gwendolyn MacEwen''s career from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, this is a comprehensive collection of work by one of the greatest women writers of the 20th century. It traces the trajectory of her verse and the development of her fiction and drama, and includes letters, paintings, and photographs from the oeuvre of this beloved Canadian poet.

Otce si nevybrala, přesto nemohla uniknout jeho jménu ani svému původu. Světlana Allilujevová strávila mládí ve zdech Kremlu, ve stínu svého otce – neomezeného vládce Sovětského svazu, Josifa Vissarionoviče Stalina. Jaký byl osud ženy, která zemřela v roce 2011 v Americe jako osamělá stařena jménem Lana Petersová? Kniha dává nahlédnout do soukromí osob, které známe z učebnic, a přináší vhled do období politických procesů, které nikoho nešetřily.

Inkännande och fängslande beskriver Rosemary Sullivan inlevelsefullt den innersta, tragiska livshistorien för en kvinna som var Stalins enda dotter i all dess märklighet, från hennes mors självmord i Kreml till hennes eget avhopp och hennes kärleksaffärer från Oxford i England och Princeton i USA till döden som utblottad i Wisconsin - alltid hemsökt av Stalin. Ett så oerhört gripande öde och så vackert skriven. Stalins dotter är den bästa biografin jag läst på mycket länge. David Lagercrantz Det här är inte en politisk berättelse utan en strävan efter kärlek i mörkrets hjärta. Simon Sebag Montefiore Hade man inte haft alla sidor med noggranna fotnoter och alla intervjuer som Rosemary Sullivan gjort skulle man vara säker på att det här är en roman. Men det är en sann historia, spännande och berättad i högt tempo i denna fascinerande biografi. Cokie Roberts Författaren klarar både spänning och intriger rakt igenom. Kirkus Reviews

Svetlana Alliloejeva groeit op binnen de muren van het Kremlin. Ze is eigenwijs, intelligent, maar ook eenzaam, vooral na de zelfmoord van haar moeder. Ze heeft geen weet van de verschrikkingen die buiten het Kremlin plaatsvinden. Ook begrijpt ze niet waarom het ene na het andere familielid plotseling verdwijnt. Pas als ze ouder wordt, beseft ze wat voor man haar vader is en wat voor gruweldaden hij op zijn geweten heeft. Na zijn dood vlucht ze naar de Verenigde Staten. Maar ook al was ze geen onderdeel van haar vaders regime, Svetlana kan zijn reputatie niet ontlopen.

Mezinárodní tým odborníků pod vedením zvláštního agenta FBI ve výslužbě objasnil pomocí moderních technologií, nedávno objevených dokumentů a sofistikovaných vyšetřovacích metod záhadu, která od konce druhé světové války fascinuje celé generace: kdo udal Anne Frankovou a její rodinu? A proč? Deník Anne Frankové si přečetlo více než třicet milionů lidí na celém světě. Třináctiletá židovská dívka Anne si ho psala, když se za druhé světové války skrývala se svou rodinou a dalšími čtyřmi osobami v tajném přístavku jednoho amsterdamského domu, dokud je nacisté nezatkli a neposlali do koncentračního tábora. Navzdory hojnému počtu děl – článkům, knihám, divadelním hrám – o Annině osudu však nikdo jasně nevysvětlil, jak se osmi lidem podařilo přežít více než dva roky v těsném úkrytu a kdo nebo co nakonec přivedlo nacisty na jejich stopu. Neúnavný tým v čele s Vincentem Pankokem důkladně prostudoval desítky tisíc stran spisů, včetně těch, které dosud nikdo nespatřil. Vedl rozhovory s mnoha potomky lidí, kteří rodinu Frankových znali. S využitím metod vyvinutých FBI vyšetřovatelé pečlivě rekonstruovali několikaměsíční sled událostí, které v srpnu 1944 vedly k nechvalně proslulému zatčení, a dospěl k šokujícímu závěru. Kniha Kdo zradil Anne Frankovou? je poutavým vyprávěním o této misi. Rosemary Sullivan představuje vyšetřovatele, vysvětluje motivy skrývajících se osob i jejich pronásledovatelů a vytváří profily podezřelých. Zároveň vykresluje živý obraz válečného Amsterdamu, místa, kde bez ohledu na to, jak bohatí, vzdělaní a opatrní jste byli, nikdy jste nevěděli, komu můžete věřit.

Quem traiu Anne Frank? A investigação que revela o segredo jamais contado é a história cativante desta missão. Rosemary Sullivan apresenta-nos os investigadores, explica o comportamento tanto dos cativos como dos seus captores e esboça o perfil de um grupo de suspeitos. Em paralelo, recria com uma extraordinária vividez a Amesterdão da guerra: um lugar no qual, por muito rico, culto ou cuidadoso que se fosse, nunca se sabia em quem se podía confiar. «Sabíamos que não ia ser fácil. O caso tinha mais de setenta e cinco anos. O denunciante e a imensa maioria das testemunhas diretas provavelmente já tinham morrido. E a questão não era tanto quem, mas antes o porquê.» Recorrendo a novas tecnologias, documentos recém-descobertos e técnicas de investigação sofisticadas, uma equipa internacional resolveu por fim o mistério que constituiu a obsessão de várias gerações desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial: quem traiu Anne Frank e a sua família? E porquê? Mais de trinta milhões de pessoas leram o diário que a jovem Anne Frank escreveu enquanto viveu na clandestinidade num sótão de Amesterdão com a família e outras quatro pessoas, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, até serem descobertas pelos nazis e enviadas para um campo de concentração. Apesar das inúmeras obras — reportagens jornalísticas, ensaios, peças de teatro e romances — que se dedicaram à história de Anne, até à data ninguém tinha conseguido explicar de modo convincente como é que essas oito pessoas conseguiram sobreviver sem serem detetadas durante mais de dois anos, e quem ou o que finalmente conduziu os nazis à sua porta. Com uma dedicação esmerada, o ex-agente do FBI, Vincent Pankoke, e uma equipa de incansáveis investigadores estudaram com afinco dezenas de milhares de documentos, muitos dos quais inéditos, e entrevistaram inúmeros descendentes de pessoas que mantiveram uma relação direta com os Frank. Utilizando métodos desenvolvidos pelo FBI, a Equipa Caso Arquivado reconstruiu minuciosamente os meses anteriores à funesta detenção e chegou a uma conclusão impactante.

Historiker og journalist Rosemary Sullivan følger et hold af efterforskere, ledet af tidligere FBI-agent Vincent Pankoke, når de genoptager en af verdens mest skammeligt uopklarede sager: Hvem afslørede Anne Frank og hendes familie i Amsterdam i 1944? Og hvorfor? Mere end 30 millioner mennesker har læst historien om Anne Frank, den 13-årige pige, der skjulte sig sammen med sin familie i Amsterdam under anden verdenskrig, blot for at blive opdaget af nazisterne og sendt i døden i en koncentrationslejr. Trods den megen journalistik og de bøger, teaterstykker og romaner, der er viet til emnet, så er der aldrig nogen, der endegyldigt har forklaret, hvordan familien Frank og fire andre personer formåede at leve i skjul uden at blive opdaget i over to år – eller hvem eller hvad, der endeligt førte nazisterne til deres dør. Et hold efterforskere har med usvigelig omhu gennemtrawlet titusindvis sider med dokumentation – hvoraf nogle aldrig tidligere har været fremvist – og interviewet snesevis af efterkommere fra folk, der – på den ene eller anden måde – var i forbindelse med familien Frank. Ved hjælp af nyudviklet DNA-teknologi og efterforskningsteknikker, der er udviklet af FBI, har Cold Case teamet genskabt de dage og uger, der gik forud for arrestationen af familien Frank – og konklusionen er chokerende. ROSEMARY SULLIVAN har skrevet 15 bøger, og hun er bedst kendt for sin seneste biografi Stalins datter, som vandt Biographer''s International Organization Plutarch Award. Hendes bog Villa Air-Bel blev tildelt en Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History. Hun er professor emeritus ved University of Toronto og har undervist i Canada, USA, Europa, Indien og Latinamerika.

Kuka ilmiantoi Anne Frankin ja hänen perheensä? Ja miksi? Toisen maailmansodan aikana Amsterdamissa perheensä kanssa piilossa eläneen 13-vuotiaan Anne Frankin tarinan on lukenut yli 30 miljoonaa ihmistä. Kun natsit löysivät lopulta perheen piilopaikan, heidät lähetettiin keskitysleirille, jossa Anne menetti henkensä. Kansainvälinen Cold Case -tutkintaryhmä käy huolellisesti läpi kymmeniätuhansia sivuja asiakirjoja, joista osa on ennennäkemättömiä, ja haastattelee lukuisia Frankin perheeseen tavalla tai toisella liittyneiden ihmisten jälkeläisiä. Uuden DNA-teknologian ja FBI:n kehittämien tutkintamenetelmien avulla selvittämättömiä rikoksia tutkiva ryhmä rekonstruoi Frankin perheen pidätystä edeltävät päivät ja viikot – ja tekee järkyttävän johtopäätöksen. "Kysymys ei tulisi koskaan olemaan helppo. Tapaus oli yli seitsemänkymmentäviisi vuotta vanha. Pettäjä ja useimmat välittömät todistajat olivat luultavasti kuolleita. Ja kysymys ei ollut vain siitä, kuka, vaan siitä miksi.” ROSEMARY SULLIVAN on kirjoittanut 15 teosta, viimeisimpänä elämäkerran Stalinin tytär. Se on julkaistu 23 maassa, ja Biographers'' International Organization myönsi sille Plutarch -palkinnon. Kirja oli myös ehdolla PEN/Bograd Weld -elämäkertapalkinnon ja National Books Critics Circle -palkinnon saajaksi. Canadian Society for Yad Vashem myönsi holokaustihistorian palkinnon hänen teokselleen Villa Air-Bel. Rosemary Sullivan on Toronton yliopiston emeritaprofessori ja hän on luennoinut Kanadassa, USA:ssa, Euroopassa, Intiassa ja Latinalaisessa Amerikassa.