A Life in Biography

222 Episodes

1. Episode 59: Biographology

   Published: 5/29/2021
2. Episode 58: The Roth/Bailey Uproar

   Published: 5/22/2021
3. Talking with Gail Crowther about her new book on Plath & Sexton, Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz

   Published: 5/8/2021
4. Episode 56: A talk with Ira Nadel about Philip Roth, Leonard Cohen, and authorized/unauthorized bios

   Published: 5/1/2021
5. Episode 55: Tales Told Out of School, Part 2: 40 Years of Interviewing

   Published: 4/17/2021
6. Episode 54, Part 1: Tales Told Out of School: 40 Years of Interviews

   Published: 4/10/2021
7. Episode 53: Mike Peros, biographer of Dan Duryea and José Ferrer & how Mike became a biographer

   Published: 4/3/2021
8. Episode 52: A Plethora of Plath, or Why So Many Biographies

   Published: 3/27/2021
9. Episode 51: Talking with Bob Batchelor about his book, biography—how it gets done and so much more.

   Published: 3/20/2021
10. Episode 50: A talk about biography with John Matteson, author of A Worse Place Than Hell

    Published: 3/13/2021
11. Episode 49: A talk with Kathleen Spaltro, Author of The Great Lie: The Creation of Mary Astor

    Published: 3/6/2021
12. Episode 48: A discussion with Sydney Stern about her book, The Brothers Mankiewicz

    Published: 2/27/2021
13. Episode 47: Justice to Charmian London, a writer who was much more than Jack London’s wife

    Published: 2/20/2021
14. Episode 46: How I Became A Biographer: A conversation with Richard Bradford

    Published: 2/13/2021
15. Episode 45: William Faulkner’s Civil War, a talk with Michael Gorra about his new book

    Published: 2/6/2021
16. Episode 44: The Past Is Never Dead

    Published: 1/31/2021
17. Episode 43: Talking with William Souder about Mad at the World, his new biography of John Steinbeck

    Published: 1/23/2021
18. Episode 42: Talking Faulkner biography with Larry Wells, author of the memoir, In Faulkner’s Shadow

    Published: 1/17/2021
19. Episode 41: Heather Clark on her new Plath Biography.

    Published: 1/9/2021
20. Episode 40: John Bryant on his new multi-volume Melville biography

    Published: 1/2/2021