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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A Life in Biography episodes:

October 09, 2021 A conversation with Joseph McBride about Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge
A wide-ranging discussion of Billy Wilder’s career, why McBride decided to do a biographical/critical study of the director, and the different objectives of biographical and critical studies in view of McBride’s own work on Frank Capra, John Ford, Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, and others.
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40min
October 02, 2021 A Capsule History of The Biographical Novel with Michael Lackey
How the biographical novel got started, what it is now, and where we are headed.
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1h 15min
September 25, 2021 What’s New in Biography, Part 3: Show Business and the Archives
Three new biographies that say so much about the art of biography.
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33min
September 18, 2021 A talk about a great figure in the Civil Rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer.
A talk about a great figure in the Civil Rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, with a master biographer, Kate Clifford Larson
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40min
September 11, 2021 What’s New in Biography, Part 2
Introductions to five new biographies of miscreants and saints: Louis Lorax, Mary Todd Lincoln, Robert Maxwell, Simone Weil, and Queen Victoria
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37min
September 04, 2021 Part 1: What’s New In Biography
Brief forays into six biographies of Monica Jones and Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Frankenthaler, William Blake, and Napoleon
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26min
August 28, 2021 Season 2, Episode 1: A Preview of Coming Attractions
More interviews with biographers, biographical novelists, discussions of issues that concern biographers and readers, and my take on several new biographies published in 2021.
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12min
August 20, 2021 Part 5 of my conversation with Tim Christian and Carol Sklenicka about the business of biography
Part 5 of a long-running series about the principles, practices, and mechanics of biography. This episode concentrates on the business of biography.
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1h
August 14, 2021 Part 4 of a discussion of the principles, practices and mechanics of biography
Part 4 of a discussion of the principles, practices, and mechanics of biography with Tim Christian, biographer of Mary Hemingway, and Carol Sklenicka, biographer of Raymond Carver and Alice Adams
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56min
August 07, 2021 A conversation with Susan Ronald about her new biography about Joseph Kennedy, The Ambassador
Susan Ronald explains why FDR chose Joseph Kennedy, a man without diplomatic skills, to be ambassador to Great Britain between 1938 and 1940
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47min

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