A Life in Biography
A podcast by Carl Rollyson
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222 Episoade
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You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
Publicat: 21.01.2024 -
Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
Publicat: 15.01.2024 -
The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
Publicat: 14.01.2024 -
Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines
Publicat: 07.01.2024 -
Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates
Publicat: 24.12.2023 -
Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.
Publicat: 17.12.2023 -
A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives
Publicat: 11.12.2023 -
A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story
Publicat: 10.12.2023 -
Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made
Publicat: 03.12.2023 -
Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby
Publicat: 22.11.2023 -
Listening to Larry Lockridge, Part 2, biographer turned novelist
Publicat: 13.11.2023 -
What happened when T. S. Matthews decided to write the first biography of T. S. Eliot? Find out!
Publicat: 12.11.2023 -
The role of place and the place of the biographer’s biography in biography
Publicat: 11.11.2023 -
Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County
Publicat: 06.11.2023 -
Talking with Dan Van Neste about Warner Baxter, the “accidental star”
Publicat: 05.11.2023 -
The Warner Brothers: How They Became That Way
Publicat: 29.10.2023 -
Paula Broussard and Lisa Royére discuss Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance
Publicat: 22.10.2023 -
Eric Laursen talks about his biography of Alex Comfort & The Joy of Sex
Publicat: 15.10.2023 -
A new biography of Betty Friedan and why it matters.
Publicat: 01.10.2023 -
An Emergency Podcast: What To Do When You Don’t Have Primary Sources
Publicat: 27.09.2023
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.