A Life in Biography
A podcast by Carl Rollyson
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222 Episodes
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A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography
Published: 9/24/2023 -
FDR Unmasked: What the Biographers Missed
Published: 9/17/2023 -
Fair Use Biography
Published: 7/27/2023 -
Finding Ursula Parrott: One biographer’s quest.
Published: 7/16/2023 -
The Different Discourses of Biographers and Subjects
Published: 7/9/2023 -
The Way I Work
Published: 7/2/2023 -
What It Takes To Do Biography
Published: 6/25/2023 -
Gabriella Kelly-Davies on writing biographies of scientists and doctors and much more
Published: 6/10/2023 -
What memory tells us about biography and doesn’t.
Published: 6/3/2023 -
The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.
Published: 6/3/2023 -
The Power of the Living Biographical Subject v The Power of the Biographer
Published: 5/23/2023 -
Dylan Thomas and why biography matters, with a cameo performance by Marilyn Monroe
Published: 5/14/2023 -
Why a biographer would go ahead when the subject is fiercely resistant
Published: 5/7/2023 -
Samuel R. Delany refuses to give up on Susan Sontag’s biographers
Published: 4/30/2023 -
Seamus Heaney in America with biographer Ed O’Shea
Published: 4/30/2023 -
What Does It Mean to Know a Biographical Subject
Published: 4/23/2023 -
Round 5 of The Biographer and His Critic
Published: 4/15/2023 -
Round 4: The Biographer and His Critic
Published: 4/8/2023 -
The Biographer and His Critic: Round 3
Published: 4/1/2023 -
A Collector’s Item: A Dialogue About Biography
Published: 3/25/2023
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.