Lois Banner, biographer of Marilyn Monroe, turns to Garbo, learns Swedish, and discovers all sorts of important sources not to be found in previous biographies. 


A Life in Biography

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

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?


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

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


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

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


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

A few more words about branding.

Building Your Brand and Best Practices

An important Faulkner critic and biographer introduces us to new way of understanding Faulkner, his fiction, and his life


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

A loading issue made me repost this exciting talk with Roger Lewis.


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How does a biographer deal with the world of pornography and so-called porn stars. Jared Stearns knows how in his biography, Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers.


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

This podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.


The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer

Ray Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists. 


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

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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.