Rosemary Sullivan Books in Order

Rosemary Sullivan examines Theodore Roethke’s poetry through its psychological patterns and the traditions shaping his work. Connecting the poet’s life with his writing, she explores the poetic and mystical influences that illuminate his complex artistic identity.

These poems explore the worlds gathered around names and identities, linking love, family history, neighborhood life, and travel. Personal encounters and remembered places become ways of examining how language gives shape to experience and the people who inhabit it.

Rosemary Sullivan’s poems examine the urge to understand life as a coherent story and the anxiety when its pattern disappears. Reflections on love, friendship, and travel explore fleeting connections between people and the openness required to discover meaning within them.

Rosemary Sullivan traces Elizabeth Smart’s rebellion against an affluent Canadian upbringing, her passionate relationship with poet George Barker, and her struggle to raise four children. The biography follows a gifted writer fighting to sustain both her family and her own artistic voice.

Rosemary Sullivan reconstructs the life of Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen, whose prolific career ended with her death at forty-six. The biography explores the person behind her exotic public image and the silences surrounding her writing.

This biography follows Margaret Atwood’s formative years and early literary career through the 1970s. Rosemary Sullivan explores how Atwood developed the confidence to pursue writing while negotiating love, motherhood, cultural expectations, and a growing commitment to Canadian literature.

New and selected poems explore home through exile, freedom through oppression, and love through experiences of loss. Drawing together different periods of Sullivan’s work, the collection considers the emotional risks and sorrows through which people remain connected to one another.

Rosemary Sullivan brings together essays, memoirs, and travel writing exploring literary lives, artistic practice, romantic obsession, and political encounters. Pieces on writers, painters, family history, and journeys abroad connect cultural questions with the personal experiences shaping her perspective.

Through encounters with Cuban musicians, dancers, filmmakers, artists, and ordinary residents, Rosemary Sullivan explores life on the island. Malcolm Batty’s photographs accompany a portrait shaped by travel, conversation, and attention to people maintaining creative and everyday lives under pressure.

In occupied France, a group of young rescuers shelters endangered artists and intellectuals at a villa outside Marseille. Their efforts to outwit Nazi and Vichy authorities unfold alongside the friendships, tensions, and creative life sustaining refugees desperate to escape.

Molito, a little mole who plays drums for his underground friends, sets out to discover the upperworld. Lost amid the city’s unfamiliar wonders, he finds a new friend whose encouragement helps him share his music and connect two very different communities.

Rosemary Sullivan traces Svetlana Alliluyeva’s life from privilege and tragedy inside Stalin’s Kremlin to defection and uncertainty in the West. Drawing on archives and family cooperation, the biography examines a woman’s struggle to escape the legacy imposed by her father’s name.

Rosemary Sullivan follows a cold-case team investigating the arrest of Anne Frank and the other people hidden in Amsterdam’s secret annex. Archival documents, interviews, and investigative methods become the basis for examining competing explanations within the dangers and compromises of wartime occupation.

Rosemary Sullivan investigates romantic obsession through literature, film, music, personal experience, and real relationships. Exploring how powerful cultural stories shape women’s desires, she considers why passionate attachment can become consuming and how its emotional patterns continue to command belief.