A Life in Biography

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