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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.

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    Copyright: © Carl Rollyson

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    More with Tim Christian & Carol Sklenicka about the principles, practices & mechanics of biography Jul 24, 2021
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    More with Tim Christian & Carol Sklenicka about the principles, practices & mechanics of biography with examples from our work

    Episode 66: The Principles & Practices of Biography: A Talk with Tim Christian & Carol Sklenicka Jul 17, 2021
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    Episode 66: Talking with Tim Christian (biographer of Mary Hemingway) and Carol Sklenicka (biographers of Raymond Carver and Alice Adams) about the principles and practices of biography.

    Episode 65: Biography and the Hermeneutic Circle Jul 10, 2021
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    What it means to circle around your subject in a biography and how that circling is hermeneutical. I draw on my biography of Lillian Hellman for examples.

    Episode 64: Janet Malcolm and the Black Art of Biography Jul 03, 2021
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    My encounters with Janet Malcolm’s assault on biography, beginning in 1994 and continuing through several books of mine in the new millennium.

    A Life in Biography (Trailer) Jun 28, 2021
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    Episode 63: Talking with Carol Sklenicka about her biography of Alice Adams Jun 27, 2021
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    The biographer of Raymond Carver explains what drew her to Alice Adams and the history of the generation that came into its own after World War II

    Episode 62: A Talk with Kai Bird about his new Shakespearean/Faulknerian biography of Jimmy Carter Jun 19, 2021
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    A talk with Kai Bird about his Shakespearean/Faulknerian biography of Jimmy Carter

    Episode 61: Biography Anne Sebba discussing Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy Jun 12, 2021
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    A wide-ranging discussion of why Ethel Rosenberg matters, what is new in her story, and why American writers continue to be obsessed with her life.

    Episode 60: The Case for Literary Prurience Jun 05, 2021
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    I draw on my experience of writing biographies of William Faulkner, Michael Foot, and Amy Lowell, to explain why biographies have to be about the whole person, notwithstanding the charge of literary prurience.

    Episode 59: Biographology May 29, 2021
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    What you need to know about reading, writing, and reviewing biography.

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