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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

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

    5 days ago

  • Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2

    2 weeks ago

  • A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights

    4 weeks ago

  • Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers

    1 month ago

  • Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism

    1 month ago

  • Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.

    2 months ago

  • A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.

    2 months ago

  • My listeners respond

    2 months ago

  • Why Biography Doesn’t Belong

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  • A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry

    3 months ago