A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. Part 3 of my interview with Alexis Coe

    Published: 12/29/2020
  2. Part 2 of my interview with Alexis Coe

    Published: 12/29/2020
  3. Part 1: Alexis Coe author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

    Published: 12/29/2020
  4. Episode 38: Ten Tips For Enterprising Biographers

    Published: 12/26/2020
  5. Episode 37: Why Plath: My Rollicking Interview with Emily Van Dyne about her forthcoming book

    Published: 12/19/2020
  6. How it took 30 years to write 2 pages of The Life of William Faulkner

    Published: 12/12/2020
  7. How it took 30 years to write 2 page of The Life of William Faulkner.

    Published: 12/12/2020
  8. Episode 35

    Published: 12/4/2020
  9. Episode 34: Speaking with Celia Stahr about her splendid biography Frida in America

    Published: 11/28/2020
  10. Episode 33: How I Became an Outlaw, Part 2: The Case of Michael Foot

    Published: 11/21/2020
  11. Episode 32: My conversation with Jonathan Alter about his new biography of Jimmy Carter.

    Published: 11/14/2020
  12. How I became an outlaw biographer

    Published: 11/7/2020
  13. Episode 30: The Biographical Novel: Who Cares?

    Published: 10/31/2020
  14. Episode 29: The Biography Police

    Published: 10/24/2020
  15. Reading and Writing Biography: A Primer

    Published: 10/17/2020
  16. What a biographer knows.

    Published: 10/10/2020
  17. What is a definitive biography?

    Published: 10/3/2020
  18. The Cruelty of Biography

    Published: 9/26/2020
  19. Episode 24: Psychologizing Biography

    Published: 9/19/2020
  20. Reviewing Biography: The Case of Sylvia Plath

    Published: 9/12/2020

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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.