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.

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Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia Plath
7/14/2024
51:18
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?
Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s work
7/7/2024
34:23
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
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Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New England
6/30/2024
35:21
Marcia Biderman writes biography like a mystery story. There is much to learn from her.
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Building Your Brand and Best Practices
6/9/2024
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Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse
5/19/2024
40:00
An important Faulkner critic and biographer introduces us to new way of understanding Faulkner, his fiction, and his life
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5/13/2024
38:21
A loading issue made me repost this exciting talk with Roger Lewis.
A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore
5/5/2024
47:55
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.
The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer
4/22/2024
1:09:42
This podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.
Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower
4/14/2024
41:22
Ray Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists.

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More episodes from "A Life in Biography"

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

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

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

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

I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography.

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

The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer

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