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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Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2 Apr 07, 2024

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I had fun with this one. I really let it rip, if I do say so myself.

A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights Mar 23, 2024

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Lois Banner, biographer of Marilyn Monroe, turns to Garbo, learns Swedish, and discovers all sorts of important sources not to be found in previous biographies.

Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers Mar 17, 2024

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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.

Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism Mar 10, 2024

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You might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer.

Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells. Mar 03, 2024

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How Rebecca Rego Barry discovered Carolyn Wells, and why she wrote a biography of a forgotten literary figure, and how she did it.

A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday. Feb 25, 2024

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Paul Alexander talks about his new state of the art biography of Billie Holiday. I listened and I learned.

My listeners respond Feb 18, 2024

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My listeners respond and I comment on their comments

Why Biography Doesn’t Belong Feb 11, 2024

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A rambling meditation on the biographer as exile.

A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry Feb 04, 2024

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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.

How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject? Jan 28, 2024

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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

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