A Life in Biography

213 Episodes

1. Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower

   Published: 4/14/2024
2. Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2

   Published: 4/7/2024
3. A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights

   Published: 3/23/2024
4. Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers

   Published: 3/17/2024
5. Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism

   Published: 3/10/2024
6. Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.

   Published: 3/3/2024
7. A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.

   Published: 2/25/2024
8. My listeners respond

   Published: 2/18/2024
9. Why Biography Doesn’t Belong

   Published: 2/11/2024
10. A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry

    Published: 2/4/2024
11. How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?

    Published: 1/28/2024
12. You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography

    Published: 1/21/2024
13. Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow

    Published: 1/15/2024
14. The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow

    Published: 1/14/2024
15. Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines

    Published: 1/7/2024
16. Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates

    Published: 12/24/2023
17. Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.

    Published: 12/17/2023
18. A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives

    Published: 12/11/2023
19. A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story

    Published: 12/10/2023
20. Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made

    Published: 12/3/2023