A Life in Biography
A podcast by Carl Rollyson
222 Episodio
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You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
Pubblicato: 21/01/2024 -
Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
Pubblicato: 15/01/2024 -
The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
Pubblicato: 14/01/2024 -
Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines
Pubblicato: 07/01/2024 -
Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates
Pubblicato: 24/12/2023 -
Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.
Pubblicato: 17/12/2023 -
A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives
Pubblicato: 11/12/2023 -
A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story
Pubblicato: 10/12/2023 -
Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made
Pubblicato: 03/12/2023 -
Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby
Pubblicato: 22/11/2023 -
Listening to Larry Lockridge, Part 2, biographer turned novelist
Pubblicato: 13/11/2023 -
What happened when T. S. Matthews decided to write the first biography of T. S. Eliot? Find out!
Pubblicato: 12/11/2023 -
The role of place and the place of the biographer’s biography in biography
Pubblicato: 11/11/2023 -
Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County
Pubblicato: 06/11/2023 -
Talking with Dan Van Neste about Warner Baxter, the “accidental star”
Pubblicato: 05/11/2023 -
The Warner Brothers: How They Became That Way
Pubblicato: 29/10/2023 -
Paula Broussard and Lisa Royére discuss Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance
Pubblicato: 22/10/2023 -
Eric Laursen talks about his biography of Alex Comfort & The Joy of Sex
Pubblicato: 15/10/2023 -
A new biography of Betty Friedan and why it matters.
Pubblicato: 01/10/2023 -
An Emergency Podcast: What To Do When You Don’t Have Primary Sources
Pubblicato: 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.