A Life in Biography

About A Life in Biography

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.

Publisher

Carl Rollyson

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Apr 2020

Latest episode

14 Jul 2024

Latest episodes

221 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Jul 2024

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

   You think you know the Plath story? Ah, but who gets to tell it, and why do they do so, and how does someone like Ted Hughes commandeer the narrative?

2. 

   7 Jul 2024

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

   What happens when a writer is hired to do a biographical novel seeking to prove Shakespeare was not Shakespeare, and how years later, the project becomes two books of nonfiction and fiction

3. 

   30 Jun 2024

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

   Marcia Biderman writes biography like a mystery story. There is much to learn from her.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

18 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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