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:

January 09, 2021 Episode 41: Heather Clark on her new Plath Biography.
We talk about how Heather Clark became interested in Plath, how she came to write the biography, how biography is a product of its age, and much more.
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31min
January 02, 2021 Episode 40: John Bryant on his new multi-volume Melville biography
A wide-ranging discussion of biography, how to work on literary figures Melville’s “black consciousness” and much more.
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44min
December 29, 2020 Part 3 of my interview with Alexis Coe
Slavery, capitalism, what went into the making of Washington’s life and those of his contemporaries—plus Alexis Coe puts THE BIG QUESTION to me.
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16min
December 29, 2020 Part 2 of my interview with Alexis Coe
More discussion of how to shake up the genre of presidential biography.
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7min
December 29, 2020 Part 1: Alexis Coe author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
A wide ranging discussion of presidential biography and why Alexis Coe decided on what has been called a “historiographical intervention.”
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10min
December 26, 2020 Episode 38: Ten Tips For Enterprising Biographers
My experience over 40 years of contacting sources and how they responded, and how I got them to respond.
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40min
December 19, 2020 Episode 37: Why Plath: My Rollicking Interview with Emily Van Dyne about her forthcoming book
Much talk about Emily’s book, Loving Sylvia Plath, how students and other readers react to Plath, and the role biography plays in the mixed reactions to her work.
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38min
December 12, 2020 How it took 30 years to write 2 pages of The Life of William Faulkner
Discussing my experience and Faulkner’s in Hollywood and how all that gets on the page.
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24min
December 12, 2020 How it took 30 years to write 2 page of The Life of William Faulkner.
Describing my experience and Faulkner’s in Hollywood and how it all gets onto the page.
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24min
December 04, 2020 Episode 35
Talking with Peter K. Steinberg, co-editor of The Letters of Sylvia Plath.
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32min

FAQs about A Life in Biography:

How many episodes does A Life in Biography have?

The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.