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.

Latest Episodes:

An Emergency Podcast: What To Do When You Don’t Have Primary Sources Sep 27, 2023

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My response to an email asking me for help

A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography Sep 24, 2023

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Forthcoming podcasts on new biographies of Betty Friedan, Warner Baxter, Alex Comfort, Eleanor Powell, Jack Ruby, T. S. Eliot and my working in progress on presidential biography

FDR Unmasked: What the Biographers Missed Sep 17, 2023

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My conversation with neurologist Steven Lomazow about his revelatory book about FDR and the impact of his health on biographies of Roosevelt

Fair Use Biography Jul 27, 2023

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Just remember: You are the one in charge of fair use. Don’t give your rights away.

Finding Ursula Parrott: One biographer’s quest. Jul 16, 2023

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My talk with Marsha Gordon about her sensational new biography of an important writer you probably have never heard of.

The Different Discourses of Biographers and Subjects Jul 09, 2023

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Knowing your subject may mean knowing his or her discourse, and the same can be said of reading biographies when considering the voices of biographer and subject.

The Way I Work Jul 02, 2023

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How I go about each day as a biographer, the sources I use, as I assemble my own archive and write my biography—in this case the one I’m working on now: Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero

What It Takes To Do Biography Jun 25, 2023

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Find out

Gabriella Kelly-Davies on writing biographies of scientists and doctors and much more Jun 10, 2023

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A wide ranging discussion of how to write about science and medicine in a biographical narrative, with some talk of other biographers including Kai Bird and Hermione Lee

What memory tells us about biography and doesn’t. Jun 03, 2023

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A continuation of the previous podcast about the variables in understanding a writer and his world.

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