A Life in Biography

A podcast by Carl Rollyson

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222 Episoade

  1. A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography

    Publicat: 24.09.2023
  2. FDR Unmasked: What the Biographers Missed

    Publicat: 17.09.2023
  3. Fair Use Biography

    Publicat: 27.07.2023
  4. Finding Ursula Parrott: One biographer’s quest.

    Publicat: 16.07.2023
  5. The Different Discourses of Biographers and Subjects

    Publicat: 09.07.2023
  6. The Way I Work

    Publicat: 02.07.2023
  7. What It Takes To Do Biography

    Publicat: 25.06.2023
  8. Gabriella Kelly-Davies on writing biographies of scientists and doctors and much more

    Publicat: 10.06.2023
  9. What memory tells us about biography and doesn’t.

    Publicat: 03.06.2023
  10. The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.

    Publicat: 03.06.2023
  11. The Power of the Living Biographical Subject v The Power of the Biographer

    Publicat: 23.05.2023
  12. Dylan Thomas and why biography matters, with a cameo performance by Marilyn Monroe

    Publicat: 14.05.2023
  13. Why a biographer would go ahead when the subject is fiercely resistant

    Publicat: 07.05.2023
  14. Samuel R. Delany refuses to give up on Susan Sontag’s biographers

    Publicat: 30.04.2023
  15. Seamus Heaney in America with biographer Ed O’Shea

    Publicat: 30.04.2023
  16. What Does It Mean to Know a Biographical Subject

    Publicat: 23.04.2023
  17. Round 5 of The Biographer and His Critic

    Publicat: 15.04.2023
  18. Round 4: The Biographer and His Critic

    Publicat: 08.04.2023
  19. The Biographer and His Critic: Round 3

    Publicat: 01.04.2023
  20. A Collector’s Item: A Dialogue About Biography

    Publicat: 25.03.2023

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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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