A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. The Ethics of Biography and a Confession

    Published: 3/18/2023
  2. Finding Jackie: A conversation with Oline Eaton about her new biography

    Published: 2/11/2023
  3. Remembering a great friend & biographer with Mary Dearborn, Diana Jacobs, Sydney Stern, Amanda Vaill

    Published: 2/8/2023
  4. The tables are turned: Author and publisher Karen Christensen interviews me!

    Published: 2/1/2023
  5. Dealing with sources, people and archive, the good,, the bad, and the ugly, with Doug Munro

    Published: 1/29/2023
  6. The History Wars! In Australia, but it happens here too. Biographers Beware

    Published: 1/22/2023
  7. A new biography of William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, avatar and precursor

    Published: 1/14/2023
  8. Doug Munro on Biography and History: Where They Meet and Deviate

    Published: 1/8/2023
  9. Choosing My Subjects: A Fireside Chat

    Published: 12/31/2022
  10. Two Mailer biographers discuss why he still matters, and why they write about him.

    Published: 12/18/2022
  11. Mahala Stripling on her biography of Richard Selzer, the doctor who made an art of medicine

    Published: 12/10/2022
  12. A talk with Bob Batchelor about his new biography of Jim Morrison, The Doors, and the Sixties

    Published: 11/27/2022
  13. A conversation with Norman Lock about Voices in the Dead House, novels, biography, and much more

    Published: 11/19/2022
  14. Ellen Brown talks about her work in progress, a biography of Tennessee Williams

    Published: 11/13/2022
  15. Biography By the Day

    Published: 11/5/2022
  16. How Diane Diekman became a biographer and her work in progress on Randy Travis

    Published: 10/29/2022
  17. Becoming You

    Published: 10/22/2022
  18. How James Meredith broke the segregation barrier at Ole Miss

    Published: 10/8/2022
  19. Allison Gilbert & Julia Scheeres: Listen, World! Their biography of the intrepid Elsie Robinson

    Published: 10/1/2022
  20. Work in Progress: A Biography of Marilyn Chambers

    Published: 9/24/2022

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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.