A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

Categories:

222 Episodes

  1. A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 6/3/2023
  10. The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.

    Published: 6/3/2023
  11. The Power of the Living Biographical Subject v The Power of the Biographer

    Published: 5/23/2023
  12. Dylan Thomas and why biography matters, with a cameo performance by Marilyn Monroe

    Published: 5/14/2023
  13. Why a biographer would go ahead when the subject is fiercely resistant

    Published: 5/7/2023
  14. Samuel R. Delany refuses to give up on Susan Sontag’s biographers

    Published: 4/30/2023
  15. Seamus Heaney in America with biographer Ed O’Shea

    Published: 4/30/2023
  16. What Does It Mean to Know a Biographical Subject

    Published: 4/23/2023
  17. Round 5 of The Biographer and His Critic

    Published: 4/15/2023
  18. Round 4: The Biographer and His Critic

    Published: 4/8/2023
  19. The Biographer and His Critic: Round 3

    Published: 4/1/2023
  20. A Collector’s Item: A Dialogue About Biography

    Published: 3/25/2023

3 / 12

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.