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:

April 14, 2024 Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower
Ray Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists.
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42min
April 07, 2024 Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2
I had fun with this one. I really let it rip, if I do say so myself.
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42min
March 23, 2024 A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights
Lois Banner, biographer of Marilyn Monroe, turns to Garbo, learns Swedish, and discovers all sorts of important sources not to be found in previous biographies.
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43min
March 17, 2024 Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers
Mary Dearborn does a valiant job of dealing with my interruptions in our discussion of her splendid biography of Carson McCullers.
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53min
March 10, 2024 Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism
You might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer.
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18min
March 03, 2024 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.
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18min
February 25, 2024 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.
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35min
February 18, 2024 My listeners respond
My listeners respond and I comment on their comments
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31min
February 11, 2024 Why Biography Doesn’t Belong
A rambling meditation on the biographer as exile.
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17min
February 04, 2024 A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry
A 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.
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31min

FAQs about A Life in Biography:

How many episodes does A Life in Biography have?

The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.