A Life in Biography

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**A Life in Biography**

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.

Latest Episodes:

Cynthia Ozick and “The Biographer’s Hat” Apr 16, 2022

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What happens when biographers become the subjects of fiction

Why John C. Calhoun still matters: a talk with his biographer, Robert Elder Apr 08, 2022

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There is much more to Calhoun, that proponent of slavery, than you might imagine.

The poetry of biography, and the biography of poetry, with Iris Jamahl Dunkle Apr 02, 2022

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The poet as biographer and the biographer as poet

Talking with Lee Kravetz about his fresh, intriguing depiction of Sylvia Plath and her world Mar 27, 2022

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A follow up to my New York Sun review of Lee Kravetz’s marvelously inventive novel about Sylvia Plath and the conditions of her life and her creativity.

A conversation with David Beveridge, narrator of volume 2 of The Life of William Faulkner Mar 19, 2022

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What goes into an audiobook: the commitment, the performance, the technical details and equipment, and why, in this case, it matters that we hear Faulkner’s voice.

The Story of My Psychoanalysis and Sylvia Plath Mar 12, 2022

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An excerpt from my work in progress, The Making of Sylvia Plath

Hemingway’s Widow: A Conversation with Timothy Christian about his new biography of Mary Hemingway Mar 05, 2022

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A conversation with Timothy Christian, who provides new insight into the Hemingway marriage, and into the way biographies are constructed and managed between biographers and their sources.

A conversation with Kathleen Brady about her biography of the saints of Assisi: Francis and Clare Feb 26, 2022

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Learn how Kathleen Brady did Plutarch proud and managed, as well, to write a biography for our times.

Another biography for Black History Month. Feb 23, 2022

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The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, a well composed biography by Alicia K. Jackson, published by University Press of Mississippi.

A conversation with James McGrath Morris, author of Tony Hillerman: A Life Feb 19, 2022

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A wide ranging talk about Hillerman and Morris’s other subjects and how they fit into his conception of biography.