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A Life in Biography

A Life in Biography

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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.

Recent Episodes

  • Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia Plath

    1 year ago

  • Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s work

    1 year ago

  • Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New England

    1 year ago

  • A few more words about branding.

    1 year ago

  • Building Your Brand and Best Practices

    1 year ago

  • Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse

    1 year ago

  • I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography.

    1 year ago

  • A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore

    1 year ago

  • The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer

    1 year ago

  • Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower

    1 year ago