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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The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.

A Life in Biography episodes:

October 01, 2022 Allison Gilbert & Julia Scheeres: Listen, World! Their biography of the intrepid Elsie Robinson
Elsie Robinson had 20 millions readers but no archive. How two biographers set about reconstructing her life.
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48min
September 24, 2022 Work in Progress: A Biography of Marilyn Chambers
The first biography of the adult film star and how a biographer goes about the research, finding an agent and publisher.
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41min
September 19, 2022 A conversation to Jerry Muller about Jacob Taubes, the Professor of Apocalypse
We range over the many places and people of an erotic and intellectual life spanning Europe, the U.S., and Israel with Susan Sontag, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Marcuse, and many more radical thinkers.
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50min
September 10, 2022 A talk with Beverly Gray about Roger Corman, Ron Howard, and what it takes to do a biography
How do you become a biographer? Hear one story about it and Beverly Gray’s adventures with Roger Corman and Ron Howard
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46min
September 03, 2022 A Biography of Jack Ruby, you say?
Listen to Danny Fingeroth speak from an undisclosed location about his work in progress.
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40min
August 20, 2022 Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and the Biographical Quest
LIsten to Aaron Sachs talk about his new book, Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times. I call it a palimpsest of biography in my New York Sun Review.
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49min
August 06, 2022 A talk about Jackie Ronne, polar explorer with her accomplished biographer, Joanna Kafarowski
How history gets rewritten in biographies of women
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39min
July 30, 2022 Why another biography of Ernest Hemingway?
A talk with Wylie McLallen about Hemingway and the rise of modern literature, publishers of biography, and much else.
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43min
July 24, 2022 Coming attractions
Polar exploration and Warren Harding as explained from an Amtrak platform in Charleston, West Virginia
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3min
July 18, 2022 The two words you should not use.
A brief homiletic
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9min

FAQs about A Life in Biography:

How many episodes does A Life in Biography have?

The podcast currently has 224 episodes available.