A Life in Biography

By Carl Rollyson

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 ... more

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July 14, 2024 Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia Plath
You think you know the Plath story? Ah, but who gets to tell it, and why do they do so, and how does someone like Ted Hughes commandeer the narrative?
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52min
July 07, 2024 Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s work
What happens when a writer is hired to do a biographical novel seeking to prove Shakespeare was not Shakespeare, and how years later, the project becomes two books of nonfiction and fiction
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35min
June 30, 2024 Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New England
Marcia Biderman writes biography like a mystery story. There is much to learn from her.
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36min
June 12, 2024 A few more words about branding.
This won’t take long.
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12min
June 09, 2024 Building Your Brand and Best Practices
Advice you may not want to take.
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36min
May 19, 2024 Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse
An important Faulkner critic and biographer introduces us to new way of understanding Faulkner, his fiction, and his life
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40min
May 13, 2024 I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography.
A loading issue made me repost this exciting talk with Roger Lewis.
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39min
May 05, 2024 A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore
How does a biographer deal with the world of pornography and so-called porn stars. Jared Stearns knows how in his biography, Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers.
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48min
April 28, 2024 All about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with the Incomparable Roger Lewis
Why Roger Lewis decided to write about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a biography that refuses to be chronological.
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48min
April 22, 2024 The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer
This podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.
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1h 10min

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