A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia Plath

    Published: 7/14/2024
  2. Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s work

    Published: 7/7/2024
  3. Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New England

    Published: 6/30/2024
  4. A few more words about branding.

    Published: 6/12/2024
  5. Building Your Brand and Best Practices

    Published: 6/9/2024
  6. Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse

    Published: 5/19/2024
  7. I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography.

    Published: 5/13/2024
  8. A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore

    Published: 5/5/2024
  9. The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer

    Published: 4/22/2024
  10. Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower

    Published: 4/14/2024
  11. Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2

    Published: 4/7/2024
  12. A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights

    Published: 3/23/2024
  13. Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers

    Published: 3/17/2024
  14. Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism

    Published: 3/10/2024
  15. Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.

    Published: 3/3/2024
  16. A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.

    Published: 2/25/2024
  17. My listeners respond

    Published: 2/18/2024
  18. Why Biography Doesn’t Belong

    Published: 2/11/2024
  19. A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry

    Published: 2/4/2024
  20. How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?

    Published: 1/28/2024

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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.