A Life in Biography
A podcast by Carl Rollyson
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222 Episodes
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The Ethics of Biography and a Confession
Published: 3/18/2023 -
Finding Jackie: A conversation with Oline Eaton about her new biography
Published: 2/11/2023 -
Remembering a great friend & biographer with Mary Dearborn, Diana Jacobs, Sydney Stern, Amanda Vaill
Published: 2/8/2023 -
The tables are turned: Author and publisher Karen Christensen interviews me!
Published: 2/1/2023 -
Dealing with sources, people and archive, the good,, the bad, and the ugly, with Doug Munro
Published: 1/29/2023 -
The History Wars! In Australia, but it happens here too. Biographers Beware
Published: 1/22/2023 -
A new biography of William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, avatar and precursor
Published: 1/14/2023 -
Doug Munro on Biography and History: Where They Meet and Deviate
Published: 1/8/2023 -
Choosing My Subjects: A Fireside Chat
Published: 12/31/2022 -
Two Mailer biographers discuss why he still matters, and why they write about him.
Published: 12/18/2022 -
Mahala Stripling on her biography of Richard Selzer, the doctor who made an art of medicine
Published: 12/10/2022 -
A talk with Bob Batchelor about his new biography of Jim Morrison, The Doors, and the Sixties
Published: 11/27/2022 -
A conversation with Norman Lock about Voices in the Dead House, novels, biography, and much more
Published: 11/19/2022 -
Ellen Brown talks about her work in progress, a biography of Tennessee Williams
Published: 11/13/2022 -
Biography By the Day
Published: 11/5/2022 -
How Diane Diekman became a biographer and her work in progress on Randy Travis
Published: 10/29/2022 -
Becoming You
Published: 10/22/2022 -
How James Meredith broke the segregation barrier at Ole Miss
Published: 10/8/2022 -
Allison Gilbert & Julia Scheeres: Listen, World! Their biography of the intrepid Elsie Robinson
Published: 10/1/2022 -
Work in Progress: A Biography of Marilyn Chambers
Published: 9/24/2022
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.