A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episodes

  1. What’s New in Biography, Part 3: Show Business and the Archives

    Published: 9/25/2021
  2. A talk about a great figure in the Civil Rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer.

    Published: 9/18/2021
  3. What’s New in Biography, Part 2

    Published: 9/11/2021
  4. Part 1: What’s New In Biography

    Published: 9/4/2021
  5. Season 2, Episode 1: A Preview of Coming Attractions

    Published: 8/28/2021
  6. Part 5 of my conversation with Tim Christian and Carol Sklenicka about the business of biography

    Published: 8/20/2021
  7. Part 4 of a discussion of the principles, practices and mechanics of biography

    Published: 8/14/2021
  8. A conversation with Susan Ronald about her new biography about Joseph Kennedy, The Ambassador

    Published: 8/7/2021
  9. Talking with Connie Palmen about her biographical novel, written in the voice of Ted Hughes

    Published: 8/4/2021
  10. A talk with Jerome Charyn about his novel, Sergeant Salinger, and the aims of biographical fiction.

    Published: 8/1/2021
  11. Part 3 of our discussion on the principles, practices, and mechanics of biography

    Published: 7/31/2021
  12. More with Tim Christian & Carol Sklenicka about the principles, practices & mechanics of biography

    Published: 7/24/2021
  13. Episode 66: The Principles & Practices of Biography: A Talk with Tim Christian & Carol Sklenicka

    Published: 7/17/2021
  14. Episode 65: Biography and the Hermeneutic Circle

    Published: 7/10/2021
  15. Episode 64: Janet Malcolm and the Black Art of Biography

    Published: 7/3/2021
  16. A Life in Biography (Trailer)

    Published: 6/28/2021
  17. Episode 63: Talking with Carol Sklenicka about her biography of Alice Adams

    Published: 6/27/2021
  18. Episode 62: A Talk with Kai Bird about his new Shakespearean/Faulknerian biography of Jimmy Carter

    Published: 6/19/2021
  19. Episode 61: Biography Anne Sebba discussing Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

    Published: 6/12/2021
  20. Episode 60: The Case for Literary Prurience

    Published: 6/5/2021

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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.