A Life in Biography

Un podcast de Carl Rollyson

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222 Épisodes

  1. You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography

    Publié: 21/01/2024
  2. Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow

    Publié: 15/01/2024
  3. The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow

    Publié: 14/01/2024
  4. Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines

    Publié: 07/01/2024
  5. Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates

    Publié: 24/12/2023
  6. Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.

    Publié: 17/12/2023
  7. A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives

    Publié: 11/12/2023
  8. A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story

    Publié: 10/12/2023
  9. Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made

    Publié: 03/12/2023
  10. Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby

    Publié: 22/11/2023
  11. Listening to Larry Lockridge, Part 2, biographer turned novelist

    Publié: 13/11/2023
  12. What happened when T. S. Matthews decided to write the first biography of T. S. Eliot? Find out!

    Publié: 12/11/2023
  13. The role of place and the place of the biographer’s biography in biography

    Publié: 11/11/2023
  14. Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County

    Publié: 06/11/2023
  15. Talking with Dan Van Neste about Warner Baxter, the “accidental star”

    Publié: 05/11/2023
  16. The Warner Brothers: How They Became That Way

    Publié: 29/10/2023
  17. Paula Broussard and Lisa Royére discuss Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance

    Publié: 22/10/2023
  18. Eric Laursen talks about his biography of Alex Comfort & The Joy of Sex

    Publié: 15/10/2023
  19. A new biography of Betty Friedan and why it matters.

    Publié: 01/10/2023
  20. An Emergency Podcast: What To Do When You Don’t Have Primary Sources

    Publié: 27/09/2023

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Talks and interviews about the life of biography as experienced by a biographer over forty years and fourteen biographies, dealing with subjects ranging from Sylvia Plath to William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag, and much more.

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