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:

November 22, 2023 Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby
How to deal with a figure so involved with conspiracy theories: What does a biography have to add to history?
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41min
November 13, 2023 Listening to Larry Lockridge, Part 2, biographer turned novelist
What happens when a biographer turns from the themes of his biography to a series of novels that are biographical and then some.
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37min
November 12, 2023 What happened when T. S. Matthews decided to write the first biography of T. S. Eliot? Find out!
A conversation with Karen Christensen about her edition of Writing The Great Tom as well as her own work on a biography of Valerie Eliot.
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45min
November 11, 2023 The role of place and the place of the biographer’s biography in biography
An example from my Lillian Hellman biography.
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17min
November 06, 2023 Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County
Listen to a fascinating discussion of how biographers deal with success and suicide and what happens when you discover details that fundamentally alter what is known about your subject.
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42min
November 05, 2023 Talking with Dan Van Neste about Warner Baxter, the “accidental star”
Why is it that some important actors are remembered and not others? Find out by listening to this discussion about Dan Van Neste’s biography of Warner Baxter.
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41min
October 29, 2023 The Warner Brothers: How They Became That Way
Movie making in Hollywood’s heyday, but also much that applies to today, to Netflix, Amazon, and the world of streaming
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39min
October 22, 2023 Paula Broussard and Lisa Royére discuss Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance
Two biographers who befriended their subject and lived to tell an inspiring tale of a life well lived and a biography well written.
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41min
October 15, 2023 Eric Laursen talks about his biography of Alex Comfort & The Joy of Sex
Sexologist, gerontologist, novelist, poet, anarchist—just some of the work that Alex Comfort accomplished, the subject of a brilliant new biography.
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44min
October 12, 2023 Sylvia Plath Day by Day, volume 1: Why did I do it. What’s in it?
A podcast that reflects on how I got started on studying Sylvia Plath and why I’ve written so many books about her.
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17min

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How many episodes does A Life in Biography have?

The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.