A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. A conversation to Jerry Muller about Jacob Taubes, the Professor of Apocalypse

    Published: 9/19/2022
  2. A talk with Beverly Gray about Roger Corman, Ron Howard, and what it takes to do a biography

    Published: 9/10/2022
  3. A Biography of Jack Ruby, you say?

    Published: 9/3/2022
  4. Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and the Biographical Quest

    Published: 8/20/2022
  5. A talk about Jackie Ronne, polar explorer with her accomplished biographer, Joanna Kafarowski

    Published: 8/6/2022
  6. Why another biography of Ernest Hemingway?

    Published: 7/30/2022
  7. Coming attractions

    Published: 7/24/2022
  8. The two words you should not use.

    Published: 7/18/2022
  9. A conversation with Jim Dougherty about his wife’s great biography of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich

    Published: 7/9/2022
  10. A conversation with Andrew Wilson about Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith & more

    Published: 7/2/2022
  11. A Biography in Progress: Beth Phillips discusses Clifford Odets and why his work and life matter

    Published: 6/26/2022
  12. The Biography I did not write

    Published: 6/18/2022
  13. To quote Robert Caro: “Turn Ever Page”

    Published: 6/11/2022
  14. A talk with Alison Macor about her new book, The Making of The Best Years of Our Lives

    Published: 6/4/2022
  15. War, trauma, and art in the life of Rudolf H. Sauter, and the process of biography

    Published: 5/28/2022
  16. A Faulknerian novel in which Faulkner appears

    Published: 5/21/2022
  17. The Gatekeepers

    Published: 5/12/2022
  18. A conversation with Michelle Morgan one of the masters of Marilyn Monroe biography

    Published: 5/7/2022
  19. A conversation with David O. Stewart about the worlds of biography and fiction

    Published: 4/30/2022
  20. A talk with master biographer, Nigel Hamilton.

    Published: 4/23/2022

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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.