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.

Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County

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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Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County

Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County

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