Kate Culkin (@kculkin) speaks with Ink Slingers to discuss her 2010 book, Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography.

Books by Kate Culkin:

Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography (2010)

The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (2008)

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

A’Lelia Bundles (@aleliabundles) speaks with Ink Slingers via Skype to discuss her 2020 book, Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker.

Books by A’Lelia Bundles:

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)

All about Madam C. J. Walker (2018)

Madam Walker Theatre Center: An Indianapolis Treasure (Images of America) (2013)

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (2001)

Madam C.J. Walker (Black Americans of Achievement) (1992)

Madam C. J. Walker, Entrepreneur (1991)

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nandini Patwardhan (@nandiniwriter) talks with Ink Slingers via Skype to discuss her 2020 book, Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions.

Books by Nandini Patwardhan:

Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions (2020)

Desi Modern Love: An Anthology of True Stories Paperback (2019)

Friends: Bombay Roots, Parallel Tracks, Shared Journeys (2019)

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sydney Stern (@sydney_stern) sits down with Ink Slingers via Skype to discuss her 2019 book, The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics.

Books by Sydney Stern:

The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics (2019)

Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique (1997)

Toyland: The High-Stakes Game of the Toy Industry (1990)

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Channing Gerard Joseph (@cgjoseph) talks with Ink Slingers to discuss his upcoming biography, House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Drag Queens — and Changed the World.

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Holly George-Warren (www.hollygeorgewarren.com) joins Ink Slingers via Skype to discuss her 2019 biography on Janis Joplin.

A selection of books by Holly George-Warren:

Cowboy! How Hollywood Invented the Wild West (Readers Digest Books, 2002)

Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Grateful Dead 365 (Abrams, 2008)

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years (HarperCollins, 2009)

A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man (Viking, 2014)

Janis: Her Life and Music (Simon & Schuster, 2019)

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kai Bird (@Kaibird123) speaks with Ink Slingers at the Leon Levy Center for Biography to discuss his upcoming biography of President Jimmy Carter.

Books by Kai Bird:

Hiroshima's Shadow (Writings on the Denial of History)

The Chairman: John J. McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment

The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Eric K. Washington (@ekwashington) joins Ink Slingers to discuss his 2019 book, Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal, published by Liveright.

Eric K. Washington’s Books:

Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Eleanor Randolph (@EleanorRandolph) sits down with Ink Slingers to discuss her latest book, The Many Lives of Bloomberg, published by Simon & Schuster in 2019.

Eleanor Randolph’s Books:

The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Waking The Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia

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Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is Ink Slingers, a podcast about life writing and the people who do it. We sit down with biographers and memoirists to talk about their inspirations, research, and how they get it all on the page.

Join us on March 9th, where journalist and biographer Eleanor Randolph will talk about her 2019 book, The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg. See you then.

Music:

Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/