Best Selling Books by Rosemary Sullivan

Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed former 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 in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent Anne to her death in a concentration camp. But despite the many works--journalism, books, plays and novels--devoted to Anne''s story, none has ever conclusively explained how the Franks and four other 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, former 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 involved, both Nazi sympathizers and resisters, familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the Franks'' arrest--and came to a shocking conclusion.

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

"As a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that . . . you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their stories." -- Margaret Atwood Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to "meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness." And what a fascinating book it is! Comprised of 21 essays spanning 5 decades and multiple continents, Where the World Was offers a vivid portrait of a writer who is instinctively drawn to other cultures and places. Whether writing about a solo vacation inside the Iron Curtain, meeting the reclusive writer Elizabeth Smart in a dilapidated cottage in the English countryside, reflecting on how Chilean society responded to Pinochet''s coup, or tracking down the people who knew Svetlana Alliluyeva for Stalin''s Daughter, Sullivan delivers a master class in cultural studies, human rights advocacy, and empathy for the human condition.

Más de 30 millones de personas han leído la historia de Ana Frank, la niña de trece años que se escondió con su familia en Amsterdam durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, solo para ser descubierta por los nazis y enviada a su muerte en un campo de concentración. Pero a pesar del periodismo, libros, obras de teatro y novelas dedicadas al tema, ninguno ha explicado nunca, de manera concluyente, cómo los Frank y otras cuatro personas lograron vivir escondidas sin ser detectadas durante más de dos años, y quién o qué finalmente llevó a los nazis a su puerta. Con esmerado cuidado, un equipo de investigadores estudió detenidamente decenas de miles de páginas de documentos, algunos nunca vistos y entrevistó a decenas de descendientes de personas involucradas, de una forma u otra, con los Frank. Utilizando tecnología de ADN desarrollada recientemente y técnicas de investigación avanzadas del FBI, el equipo de Cold Case recrea los días y semanas antes del arresto de los Frank, y llega a una conclusión impactante. Pero a pesar de todo el análisis que contiene, el gran logro de este libro es que lleva a los lectores a un viaje de regreso a los tiempos de guerra. Ámsterdam, donde, por primera vez, llegamos a comprender cómo era vivir en un lugar concurrido, un lugar donde no importaba cuán rico, educado o cuidadoso fueras, nunca sabías en quién confiar.

A study of Roethke''s collected works stresses the unity of his poetry and illustrates the influence of such figures as Eliot, Stevens, and Yeats upon his writings

Rosemary Sullivan is better known in Canada as a biographer, but her first love is poetry. In 1996 her first book of poetry won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book. In 1991 she published yet another book of poetry. But since then she has devoted herself to the biographies of Elizabeth Smart, Gwendolyn MacEwen and most recently that of Margaret Atwood. And for these works was nominated for one Governor General''s Award, and won another. After eight years, however, she has returned to poetry. In this new collection, "The Bone Ladder," she introduces a new, experimental sequence, "Granada Notebook." It is written like a novel with an adulterous plot and characters, the sequence is set in the exotic city of the Alhambra. The poems explore what happens when love fractures and how it is recovered only after a long, exhaustive battle within the self. The title of this collection, The Bone Ladder, refers to the mysteries of ancestral inheritance, how the family anticipates us generations before we are born. This book is also a retrospective collection, and contains work from her first two books of poetry. Her books have been published in England, Spain, and Sweden. She is also editor of numerous anthologies of poetry and fiction by women, most recently "The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women" (1999).