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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December 05, 2021 A talk with Hilary Holladay about her stirring new biography of Adrienne Rich
A deep dive into the life of one of America’s greatest poets and how a biographer goes about her work. Don’t miss Holladay’s concluding remarks about how to approach the poet.
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1h 39min
December 04, 2021 What’s New in Biography for 2021: The Unknowns and the Knowns
Two biographies that say a lot of why we turn to biography.
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20min
November 20, 2021 Ray Boomhower talks about his biography of acclaimed war correspondent, Richard Tregaskis
How a biography of a war correspondent gets done with a veteran biographer of war correspondents, Ray Boomhower.
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38min
November 13, 2021 Gay Faulkner and Biography, how the story gets told, and why.
Faulkner’s performance of gayness, why it was important, how it enters his work, and why a book such as Gay Faulkner destablizes biography is a good thing.
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54min
November 06, 2021 What’s New in Biography, 2021: Three Well Worn Biographical Subjects
Why write another biography of? Three biographers answer the question for Robert E. Lee, Oliver Cromwell, and Winston Churchill
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44min
October 31, 2021 Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and most of all Assia Wevill in a new light in Capriccio
Part of a continuing series on the biographical novel and the way it contributes to our understanding of biographical subjects—this time with Dina Davis who does justice to Assia Wevill
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41min
October 23, 2021 The Business of Biography: An Addendum, courtesy of Karen Christensen
A wide-ranging discussion with Karen Christensen, publisher and biographer, about libel, indemnity clauses, the widow Eliot and others widows and wives.
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41min
October 21, 2021 The Role Of Interpretation: A Discussion with the Inimitable Hans Renders
A wide ranging discussion of how biographers treat the issue of interpretation, how much to comment as opposed to just telling the story.
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39min
October 16, 2021 The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography
I explain why in terms of my own experience researching and writing about the life of Sylvia Plath
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18min
October 16, 2021 The Answer to One Biography is Another Biography
I explain why in terms of my own experience working on Sylvia Plath
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18min

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The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.