Podcast #215 – Caitlin Cass and Lisa Napoli

Caitlin CassLisa NapoliThese authors talk about a few of the different forms of biography. Caitlin Cass’s graphic book, Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S., was named a Best Art Book of 2024 by Hyperallergic. Since 2009, Cass has self-published a bi-monthly comic periodical called the Great Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent, and her comics and cartoons have been published in The New Yorker and The Nib. Lisa Napoli worked as a journalist for The New York Times, public radio’s Marketplace, and MSNBC. She has written four books, including a group biography of the four founding mothers of NPR. Lisa Napoli, a long-time member of BIO, is working on her Master’s degree in Biography and Memoir at the CUNY Graduate Center. Cass and Napoli were interviewed by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog.