The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer
Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower
Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2
A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights
Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers
Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism
Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.
A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.
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Why Biography Doesn’t Belong
A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry
How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?
You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines
Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates
Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.
A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives
A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story
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