All about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with the Incomparable Roger Lewis

28/4/2024

A Life in Biography

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Why Roger Lewis decided to write about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a biography that refuses to be chronological.

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All about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with the Incomparable Roger Lewis

A Life in Biography

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All about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with the Incomparable Roger Lewis

The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer

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

Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2

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

Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers

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

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

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