A Life in Biography
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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.
A Life in Biography
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Mary Dearborn does a valiant job of dealing with my interruptions in our discussion of her splendid biography of Carson McCullers ..read more
A Life in Biography
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You might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer ..read more
A Life in Biography
1M ago
Paul Alexander talks about his new state of the art biography of Billie Holiday. I listened and I learned ..read more
A Life in Biography
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A talk with the delightful Marian Janssen who describes her career as a biographer and why she chose to write about the American poet Carolyn Kizer ..read more
A Life in Biography
2M ago
I explain what happened when I became part of the lives of my two subjects while researching and writing To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie and A Private Life of Michael Foot ..read more
A Life in Biography
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Al Christie: Hollywood’s Forgotten Film Pioneer by Mark Kearney. A wide ranging discussion of a pioneer Hollywood filmmaker, how to write his biography, and what implications there are for biographers of film figures ..read more
A Life in Biography
2M ago
Tim Christian describes the process of doing an audiobook, with some very specific advice and technical specifications ..read more