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.

A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry

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.

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A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry

A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry

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