A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. Episode 22: The Case Against Biography

    Published: 9/5/2020
  2. Words Often Applied to Biography

    Published: 8/29/2020
  3. 3 Questions You Should Never Ask About Biography

    Published: 8/22/2020
  4. Episode 19: Proposing a Biography

    Published: 8/15/2020
  5. Episode 18: Biography, The Historical Present, and You

    Published: 8/8/2020
  6. Marilyn Monroe and the Idea of Biography

    Published: 8/1/2020
  7. Episode 16: My Listeners Respond

    Published: 7/25/2020
  8. The Gaps and Bulges of Biography

    Published: 7/18/2020
  9. Episode 14: Who Deserves A Biography?

    Published: 7/11/2020
  10. Episode 13: Homage to Deirdre Bair and the Purpose of Biography

    Published: 7/4/2020
  11. How I Became a Biographer

    Published: 6/27/2020
  12. Fair Use Biography: Forget about the Don’ts in Most Cases. Just go ahead.

    Published: 6/21/2020
  13. The Whys and Wherefores of Documentary Biography

    Published: 6/14/2020
  14. Episode 9: How To Begin a Biography: The Case of William Faulkner

    Published: 6/6/2020
  15. Episode 8: How to End a Biography, The Case of Sylvia Plath

    Published: 5/30/2020
  16. Episode 7: Prefaces to Biography

    Published: 5/24/2020
  17. Building a Better Biography: How to Capture the Whole Man

    Published: 5/16/2020
  18. Sylvia Plath, Meet Rebecca West

    Published: 5/10/2020
  19. A Tale of Two Biographies: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath and The Life of William Faulkner

    Published: 5/2/2020
  20. Episode 3: Faulkner Preludes

    Published: 4/25/2020

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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.