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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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    You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography Jan 21, 2024
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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.



    Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow Jan 15, 2024
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    How to do a biography as an audiobook

    The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow Jan 14, 2024
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    Tim Christian describes the process of doing an audiobook, with some very specific advice and technical specifications.

    Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines Jan 07, 2024
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    Cherie Quarters: The Place and People That Inspire Ernest J. Gaines: biography, memoir, history, and an evocation of the material world out of which a great American writer fashioned his fiction.

    Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates Dec 24, 2023
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    A brief podcast, what you might call a short snort, about those who malign biography.

    Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects. Dec 17, 2023
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    A talk with Henry Schlesinger about his book on Honey Traps and the biographies of alluring spies.

    A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives Dec 11, 2023
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    What happens when the biographer becomes part of the story? Chris Wallace shows us in her unique book, Political Lives.

    A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story Dec 10, 2023
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    A discussion of a unique book by Chris Wallace, a journalist turned scholar, and how biographers interact with their subjects.

    Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made Dec 03, 2023
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    Join David Fantle and Tom Johnson for a lively discussion of the backstory and performances and production of the MGM musical, Summer Stock

    Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby Nov 22, 2023
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    How to deal with a figure so involved with conspiracy theories: What does a biography have to add to history?

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