A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. Cynthia Ozick and “The Biographer’s Hat”

    Published: 4/16/2022
  2. Why John C. Calhoun still matters: a talk with his biographer, Robert Elder

    Published: 4/8/2022
  3. The poetry of biography, and the biography of poetry, with Iris Jamahl Dunkle

    Published: 4/2/2022
  4. Talking with Lee Kravetz about his fresh, intriguing depiction of Sylvia Plath and her world

    Published: 3/27/2022
  5. A conversation with David Beveridge, narrator of volume 2 of The Life of William Faulkner

    Published: 3/19/2022
  6. The Story of My Psychoanalysis and Sylvia Plath

    Published: 3/12/2022
  7. Hemingway’s Widow: A Conversation with Timothy Christian about his new biography of Mary Hemingway

    Published: 3/5/2022
  8. A conversation with Kathleen Brady about her biography of the saints of Assisi: Francis and Clare

    Published: 2/26/2022
  9. Another biography for Black History Month.

    Published: 2/23/2022
  10. A conversation with James McGrath Morris, author of Tony Hillerman: A Life

    Published: 2/19/2022
  11. A Biography of the Day for Black History Month

    Published: 2/17/2022
  12. An unusual group biography: The Psychologies of Political Exile: From Ovid to the Dalai Lama

    Published: 2/12/2022
  13. A conversation with Ralph Eubanks, author of A Place Like Mississippi

    Published: 2/5/2022
  14. Don’t Be Afraid! We’re talking theory here.

    Published: 2/3/2022
  15. A lively talk with Steve Paul about Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S Connell

    Published: 1/29/2022
  16. Biography of the Day, Part 3

    Published: 1/26/2022
  17. Who is Assia Wevill? Why Does She Matter?

    Published: 1/22/2022
  18. The Biography of the Day, Part 2

    Published: 1/19/2022
  19. Who is Assia Wevill? Why She Matters. Part 1

    Published: 1/15/2022
  20. The Biography of The Day, Part 1

    Published: 1/14/2022

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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.