A Life in Biography

222 Episodes

1. A preview of coming attractions and of my work in progress on presidential biography

   Published: 24/09/2023
2. FDR Unmasked: What the Biographers Missed

   Published: 17/09/2023
3. Fair Use Biography

   Published: 27/07/2023
4. Finding Ursula Parrott: One biographer’s quest.

   Published: 16/07/2023
5. The Different Discourses of Biographers and Subjects

   Published: 09/07/2023
6. The Way I Work

   Published: 02/07/2023
7. What It Takes To Do Biography

   Published: 25/06/2023
8. Gabriella Kelly-Davies on writing biographies of scientists and doctors and much more

   Published: 10/06/2023
9. What memory tells us about biography and doesn’t.

   Published: 03/06/2023
10. The nature of literary power, who holds it, and how the biographer should understand it.

    Published: 03/06/2023
11. The Power of the Living Biographical Subject v The Power of the Biographer

    Published: 23/05/2023
12. Dylan Thomas and why biography matters, with a cameo performance by Marilyn Monroe

    Published: 14/05/2023
13. Why a biographer would go ahead when the subject is fiercely resistant

    Published: 07/05/2023
14. Samuel R. Delany refuses to give up on Susan Sontag’s biographers

    Published: 30/04/2023
15. Seamus Heaney in America with biographer Ed O’Shea

    Published: 30/04/2023
16. What Does It Mean to Know a Biographical Subject

    Published: 23/04/2023
17. Round 5 of The Biographer and His Critic

    Published: 15/04/2023
18. Round 4: The Biographer and His Critic

    Published: 08/04/2023
19. The Biographer and His Critic: Round 3

    Published: 01/04/2023
20. A Collector’s Item: A Dialogue About Biography

    Published: 25/03/2023