A conversation with Jim Dougherty about his wife’s great biography of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich
85 year old Jim Dougherty’s compelling saga about a great biography that was almost not published.
9 Jul 202226min
A conversation with Andrew Wilson about Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith & more
Biographer Andrew Wilson talks about his work in fiction and fact, biographies and novels.
2 Jul 202240min
A Biography in Progress: Beth Phillips discusses Clifford Odets and why his work and life matter
What it takes for a biographer to do justice to a major American playwright
26 Jun 20227h 30min
The Biography I did not write
It is probably just as well
18 Jun 202213min
To quote Robert Caro: “Turn Ever Page”
The history of publishing Plath’s letters and why it matters to biography
11 Jun 202239min
A talk with Alison Macor about her new book, The Making of The Best Years of Our Lives
A lesson here for how to write group biography as well the history of an epic film.
4 Jun 20221h 23min
War, trauma, and art in the life of Rudolf H. Sauter, and the process of biography
A wide ranging discussion of an artist interned during World War I and what he made of his life and art coming out of that trauma.
28 Mai 202236min
A Faulknerian novel in which Faulkner appears
What happens when a novelist reads, writes like his subject, and puts that subject in a novel?
21 Mai 202234min
