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A Life in Biography episodes
- Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia PlathYou 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?52 min
- Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s workWhat 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 fiction35 min
- Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New EnglandMarcia Biderman writes biography like a mystery story. There is much to learn from her.36 min
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- Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verseAn important Faulkner critic and biographer introduces us to new way of understanding Faulkner, his fiction, and his life40 min
- 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.39 min
- A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcoreHow 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.48 min
- All about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with the Incomparable Roger LewisWhy Roger Lewis decided to write about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a biography that refuses to be chronological.48 min
- The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance BiographerThis podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.1 hr 10 min
About A Life in Biography
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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.