Whether you are a reader or a writer, and especially if you are a biographer or someone writing a memoir or family history, you’ll find much to consider in this conversation with Carl Rollyson, who has stories about many subjects: Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Eve Arden, Joan Crawford, Ronald Coleman, Susan Sontag, and Sylvia Plath. How’s that for variety? And I throw in a tidbit about Valerie Eliot, notable both for the song “Memory” and for her myth making.

Show Notes

Carl Rollyson is the author of many biographies, as well as books about biography, and he only recently stopped adding to his popular podcast series, A Life in Biography. Details about his many biographies and books about the art of biography at Carl Rollyson’s website.

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