An Emergency Podcast: What To Do When You Don’t Have Primary Sources
My response to an email asking me for help
27 Sep 202311min
A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography
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
24 Sep 20239min
FDR Unmasked: What the Biographers Missed
My conversation with neurologist Steven Lomazow about his revelatory book about FDR and the impact of his health on biographies of Roosevelt
17 Sep 202345min
Fair Use Biography
Just remember: You are the one in charge of fair use. Don’t give your rights away.
27 Jul 202316min
Finding Ursula Parrott: One biographer’s quest.
My talk with Marsha Gordon about her sensational new biography of an important writer you probably have never heard of.
16 Jul 202339min
The Different Discourses of Biographers and Subjects
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.
9 Jul 202324min
The Way I Work
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
2 Jul 202325min
What It Takes To Do Biography
Find out
25 Jun 202321min
