September 13th, 2024
This week film historian Matthew Kennedy talks about his latest book,
On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide, published by Oxford University Press in May 2024. Kennedy also authored
Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, and he has written biographies of actresses Marie Dressler and Joan Blondell, and of director/screenwriter Edmund Goulding. Kennedy has introduced film series at the Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Pacific Film Archive,…
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June 7th, 2024
This week we interview Marsha Gordon, author, professor, and director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. Gordon’s latest book,
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, was published by the University of California Press in April 2023. Gordon is a former National Humanities Center Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar. Her other books include
Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies, and
Hollywood Ambitions: …
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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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Tags: biographers, biography, Debby Applegate, jack farrell, jazz age, John A. Farrell, madam, podcast, writers
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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