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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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    Listening to Larry Lockridge, Part 2, biographer turned novelist Nov 13, 2023
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    What happens when a biographer turns from the themes of his biography to a series of novels that are biographical and then some.

    What happened when T. S. Matthews decided to write the first biography of T. S. Eliot? Find out! Nov 12, 2023
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    A conversation with Karen Christensen about her edition of Writing The Great Tom as well as her own work on a biography of Valerie Eliot.

    The role of place and the place of the biographer’s biography in biography Nov 11, 2023
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    An example from my Lillian Hellman biography.

    Larry Lockridge discusses his biography of his father Ross Lockridge and his novel Raintree County Nov 06, 2023
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    Listen to a fascinating discussion of how biographers deal with success and suicide and what happens when you discover details that fundamentally alter what is known about your subject.

    Talking with Dan Van Neste about Warner Baxter, the “accidental star” Nov 05, 2023
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    Why is it that some important actors are remembered and not others? Find out by listening to this discussion about Dan Van Neste’s biography of Warner Baxter.

    The Warner Brothers: How They Became That Way Oct 29, 2023
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    Movie making in Hollywood’s heyday, but also much that applies to today, to Netflix, Amazon, and the world of streaming

    Paula Broussard and Lisa Royére discuss Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance Oct 22, 2023
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    Two biographers who befriended their subject and lived to tell an inspiring tale of a life well lived and a biography well written.

    Eric Laursen talks about his biography of Alex Comfort & The Joy of Sex Oct 15, 2023
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    Sexologist, gerontologist, novelist, poet, anarchist—just some of the work that Alex Comfort accomplished, the subject of a brilliant new biography.

    Sylvia Plath Day by Day, volume 1: Why did I do it. What’s in it? Oct 12, 2023
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    A podcast that reflects on how I got started on studying Sylvia Plath and why I’ve written so many books about her.

    A new biography of Betty Friedan and why it matters. Oct 01, 2023
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    Rachel Shteir takes us inside of making of her Jewish Lives biography of the author of The Feminine Mystique

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