A Life in Biography

213 Episodes

1. Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby

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

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

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

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

   Published: 11/6/2023
6. Talking with Dan Van Neste about Warner Baxter, the “accidental star”

   Published: 11/5/2023
7. The Warner Brothers: How They Became That Way

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

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

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

    Published: 10/1/2023
11. An Emergency Podcast: What To Do When You Don’t Have Primary Sources

    Published: 9/27/2023
12. A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography

    Published: 9/24/2023
13. FDR Unmasked: What the Biographers Missed

    Published: 9/17/2023
14. Fair Use Biography

    Published: 7/27/2023
15. Finding Ursula Parrott: One biographer’s quest.

    Published: 7/16/2023
16. The Different Discourses of Biographers and Subjects

    Published: 7/9/2023
17. The Way I Work

    Published: 7/2/2023
18. What It Takes To Do Biography

    Published: 6/25/2023
19. Gabriella Kelly-Davies on writing biographies of scientists and doctors and much more

    Published: 6/10/2023
20. What memory tells us about biography and doesn’t.

    Published: 6/3/2023