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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The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.

A Life in Biography episodes:

April 30, 2022 A conversation with David O. Stewart about the worlds of biography and fiction
The overlapping worlds of biography and fiction and how they are inter-dependent
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38min
April 23, 2022 A talk with master biographer, Nigel Hamilton.
About the making of a biographer and what keeps him at it.
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41min
April 16, 2022 Cynthia Ozick and “The Biographer’s Hat”
What happens when biographers become the subjects of fiction
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24min
April 08, 2022 Why John C. Calhoun still matters: a talk with his biographer, Robert Elder
There is much more to Calhoun, that proponent of slavery, than you might imagine.
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52min
April 02, 2022 The poetry of biography, and the biography of poetry, with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
The poet as biographer and the biographer as poet
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39min
March 27, 2022 Talking with Lee Kravetz about his fresh, intriguing depiction of Sylvia Plath and her world
A follow up to my New York Sun review of Lee Kravetz’s marvelously inventive novel about Sylvia Plath and the conditions of her life and her creativity.
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39min
March 19, 2022 A conversation with David Beveridge, narrator of volume 2 of The Life of William Faulkner
What goes into an audiobook: the commitment, the performance, the technical details and equipment, and why, in this case, it matters that we hear Faulkner’s voice.
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37min
March 12, 2022 The Story of My Psychoanalysis and Sylvia Plath
An excerpt from my work in progress, The Making of Sylvia Plath
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16min
March 05, 2022 Hemingway’s Widow: A Conversation with Timothy Christian about his new biography of Mary Hemingway
A conversation with Timothy Christian, who provides new insight into the Hemingway marriage, and into the way biographies are constructed and managed between biographers and their sources.
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7h 38min
February 26, 2022 A conversation with Kathleen Brady about her biography of the saints of Assisi: Francis and Clare
Learn how Kathleen Brady did Plutarch proud and managed, as well, to write a biography for our times.
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45min

FAQs about A Life in Biography:

How many episodes does A Life in Biography have?

The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.