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.

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Part 2 of my interview with Alexis Coe Dec 29, 2020

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More discussion of how to shake up the genre of presidential biography.

Part 1: Alexis Coe author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington Dec 29, 2020

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A wide ranging discussion of presidential biography and why Alexis Coe decided on what has been called a “historiographical intervention.”

Episode 38: Ten Tips For Enterprising Biographers Dec 26, 2020

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My experience over 40 years of contacting sources and how they responded, and how I got them to respond.

Episode 37: Why Plath: My Rollicking Interview with Emily Van Dyne about her forthcoming book Dec 19, 2020

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Much talk about Emily’s book, Loving Sylvia Plath, how students and other readers react to Plath, and the role biography plays in the mixed reactions to her work.

How it took 30 years to write 2 pages of The Life of William Faulkner Dec 12, 2020

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Discussing my experience and Faulkner’s in Hollywood and how all that gets on the page.

How it took 30 years to write 2 page of The Life of William Faulkner. Dec 12, 2020

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Describing my experience and Faulkner’s in Hollywood and how it all gets onto the page.

Episode 35 Dec 04, 2020

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Talking with Peter K. Steinberg, co-editor of The Letters of Sylvia Plath.

Episode 34: Speaking with Celia Stahr about her splendid biography Frida in America Nov 28, 2020

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A conversation about Frida Kahlo and her three years in America with a great cast of characters, including Henry Ford, the Rockefeller’s, Georgia O’Keefee, Louis Nevelson and much, much more.

Episode 33: How I Became an Outlaw, Part 2: The Case of Michael Foot Nov 21, 2020

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Dealing with family and friends.

Episode 32: My conversation with Jonathan Alter about his new biography of Jimmy Carter. Nov 14, 2020

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We discuss the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, his achievements and failures, his rise from the bottom third to the top third of U.S. presidents, and much more about what a biography can accomplish.

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