[3] Carroll was able to persuade management at Weekend Magazine to sponsor Pak Jong Yong's university education in Canada.
[6] The novel is a satire about the magazine industry, with the heroine based on Marilyn Monroe, whom Carroll had interviewed and photographed in 1952.
Carroll then approached Maurice Girodias, the owner of Paris-based Olympia Press, who agreed to publish it.
When republished in 1964 by Stein and Day as The Shy Photographer, the book was translated into multiple languages and sold half a million copies.
Included are interviews with Marilyn Monroe in 1952, writer Arthur Hailey (1966), Elvis Presley (1956), and Toronto millionaire businessman "Honest" Ed Mirvish (1970).
[8] Carroll's next book was The Life and Times of Gregory Clark, Canada's Favorite Storyteller, published by Doubleday in 1981.
[9] In 1984, Carroll contributed the text to The Farm, which featured photographs by Reuben R. Sallows and John de Visser.