January 28th, 2022
This week we interview biographer and historian, Debby Applegate. Her first book,
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. This book also was named one of the best books of the year by the
New York Times Book Review, NPR’s
Fresh Air, the
Washington …
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December 31st, 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, Writing the First Biography of Your Subject, featured biographers Justin Gifford (
Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver), Abigail Santamaria (
Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis) and Carol Sklenicka (
Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer…
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