A Life in Biography

222 Episodes

1. You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography

   Published: 1/21/2024
2. Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow

   Published: 1/15/2024
3. The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow

   Published: 1/14/2024
4. Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines

   Published: 1/7/2024
5. Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates

   Published: 12/24/2023
6. Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.

   Published: 12/17/2023
7. A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives

   Published: 12/11/2023
8. A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story

   Published: 12/10/2023
9. Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made

   Published: 12/3/2023
10. Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/27/2023