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 28, 2024 How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?
I explain what happened when I became part of the lives of my two subjects while researching and writing To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie and A Private Life of Michael Foot
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34min
January 21, 2024 You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
Al Christie: Hollywood’s Forgotten Film Pioneer by Mark Kearney. A wide ranging discussion of a pioneer Hollywood filmmaker, how to write his biography, and what implications there are for biographers of film figures.

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37min
January 15, 2024 Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
How to do a biography as an audiobook
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30min
January 14, 2024 The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
Tim Christian describes the process of doing an audiobook, with some very specific advice and technical specifications.
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30min
January 07, 2024 Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines
Cherie Quarters: The Place and People That Inspire Ernest J. Gaines: biography, memoir, history, and an evocation of the material world out of which a great American writer fashioned his fiction.
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51min
December 24, 2023 Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates
A brief podcast, what you might call a short snort, about those who malign biography.
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10min
December 17, 2023 Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.
A talk with Henry Schlesinger about his book on Honey Traps and the biographies of alluring spies.
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27min
December 11, 2023 A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives
What happens when the biographer becomes part of the story? Chris Wallace shows us in her unique book, Political Lives.
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41min
December 10, 2023 A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story
A discussion of a unique book by Chris Wallace, a journalist turned scholar, and how biographers interact with their subjects.
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42min
December 03, 2023 Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made
Join David Fantle and Tom Johnson for a lively discussion of the backstory and performances and production of the MGM musical, Summer Stock
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42min

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How many episodes does A Life in Biography have?

The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.