November 26th, 2022
This week we interview Allison Gilbert, an award-winning journalist and co-author (with writer Julia Scheeres) of
Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman. Published by Seal Press in September 2022, this biography of William Randolph Hearst’s highest-paid woman writer has been called “broadminded, sharp-witted, fast-paced, and funny” by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Debby Applegate. Gilbert has authored three books on grief and loss:
Passed and Present,
Always Too Soon,…
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Tags: allison gilbert, biographers, biography, elsie robinson, jennifer skoog, listen world, podcast
October 14th, 2022
This week we interview Etta Madden, author of
Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and International Networks. Published by the State University of New York Press in April 2022, this book focuses on three little known Americans—Caroline Crane Marsh, Anne Hampton Brewster, and Emily Bliss Gould—whose lives intersected in an evolving Italy during the mid-19th century. Madden is the author of three additional books that explore American writers, utopian literature, and intentional communities. A…
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Tags: anne hampton brewster, biographers, biography, caroline crane marsh, Emily Bliss Gould, engaging italy, etta madden, jennifer skoog, podcast
September 30th, 2022
This week we interview Betsy Smoot, an intelligence historian interested in early twentieth-century cryptology and communications. She retired from the Center for Cryptologic History of the National Security Agency in 2017, and she has published articles in
Cryptologia and
Intelligence and National Security. Her book,
Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Crytology, was published by the University Press of Kentucky in March 2022. Betsy Smoot was interviewed by fellow BIO member Jennifer…
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Tags: betsy rohaly smoot, biographers, biography, cryptology, jennifer skoog, parker hitt, podcast
September 16th, 2022
This week we interview Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, Peabody Award and Polk Award-winning journalists and co-authors of
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, published by Viking Press in May 2022.
Toluse Olorunnipa is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for
The Washington Post. He joined the
Post in 2019 and previously covered the White House. Before that, Olorunnipa spent five years at
Bloomberg, where…
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Tags: biographers, biography, his name is george floyd, jennifer skoog, podcast, robert samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
