September 20th, 2024
This week we interview Jessica (Max) Stein, author of
Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography. This first-time biography of a highly regarded Muppet/Sesame Street performer was published in March 2024 by Rutgers University Press. Stein is New York-based writer who teaches writing and literature at the City University of New York. Biographers International Organization honored Stein’s
Funny Boy book proposal as one of three finalists for its 2016 Hazel Rowley Prize. Stein’s writing has…
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January 26th, 2024
This week we interview Dean King whose latest book,
Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite, was published by Scribner in March 2023. King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books including
Skeletons on the Zahara,
Unbound,
Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed, and
The Feud. His writing has appeared in
Granta,
Garden & Gun,
National Geographic Adventure,
Outside, the
New York …
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December 26th, 2021
This week we offer the next episode in a special mini-series featuring highlights from panel discussions conducted during BIO’s first virtual annual conference, held May 14-16, 2021. The session, The Art and Technology of Interviewing, featured authors John Brady (
The Art of Interviewing), Claudia Dreifus (
Interview; The New York Times’
Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science) and Brian Jay Jones (
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an …
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June 21st, 2019
In this week’s episode, we interview veteran biographer Brian Jay Jones, author of
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodore Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination. This interview was recorded during BIO’s May 2019 annual conference in New York City.
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