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A Life in Biography episodes
- Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray BoomhowerRay Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists.42 min
- Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2I had fun with this one. I really let it rip, if I do say so myself.42 min
- A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insightsLois Banner, biographer of Marilyn Monroe, turns to Garbo, learns Swedish, and discovers all sorts of important sources not to be found in previous biographies.43 min
- Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullersMary Dearborn does a valiant job of dealing with my interruptions in our discussion of her splendid biography of Carson McCullers.53 min
- Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House ModernismYou might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer.18 min
- Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.How Rebecca Rego Barry discovered Carolyn Wells, and why she wrote a biography of a forgotten literary figure, and how she did it.18 min
- A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.Paul Alexander talks about his new state of the art biography of Billie Holiday. I listened and I learned.35 min
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- A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetryA talk with the delightful Marian Janssen who describes her career as a biographer and why she chose to write about the American poet Carolyn Kizer.31 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.