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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 20227h 30min
The Biography I did not write
It is probably just as well
18 Juni 202213min
To quote Robert Caro: “Turn Ever Page”
The history of publishing Plath’s letters and why it matters to biography
11 Juni 202239min
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 Maj 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 Maj 202234min
