September 9th, 2022
This week we interview Philip Short, a British journalist who
has written several definitive biographies, including
Mao: A Life and
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. Short has had a long career as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, Beijing, and Washington, D.C., working for the BBC, the
Economist, and the
Times of London. Short’s latest biography is,
Putin, published by Henry Holt & Company in July 2022. It examines the life of…
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May 13th, 2022
This week we offer the second part of two special episodes featuring David Maraniss, the veteran journalist and author of 13 highly regarded books. His latest book,
Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, will be published by Simon and Schuster in August 2022. Maraniss is a
New York Times bestselling author, associate editor at
The Washington Post and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. In addition, his reporting and writing has earned him…
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May 6th, 2022
This week we offer the first of two special episodes featuring David Maraniss, the veteran journalist and author of 13 highly regarded books. His latest book,
Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, will be published by Simon & Schuster in August 2022. Maraniss is a
New York Times bestselling author and associate editor at
The Washington Post. In 1992 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on then presidential…
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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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November 26th, 2021
This week we interview veteran Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and writer, Daniel de Visé. Exploring the life and times of a legendary guitarist and singer, his latest biography,
King of the Blues, The Rise and Reign of B.B. King, was published by Grove Press in October 2021. De Visé’s previous books include biographies of actors Andy Griffin and Don Knotts (
Andy & Don, Simon & Schuster), as well as professional cyclist…
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October 25th, 2019
In this week’s episode, fellow biographer and BIO member John “Jack” Farrell interviews Michael Kranish, author of
The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor; America’s First Black Sports Hero. This interview was recorded in Washington, DC in September 2019.
https://biographersinternational.org/podcast-player/6354/podcast-episode-35-michael-kranish.mp3…
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Tags: authors, biographers, biography, Major Taylor, Michael Kranish, podcast, The World's Fastest Man, writers
August 16th, 2019
This week’s episode features highlights from a panel from the 2019 BIO Conference, “Fire Up Your Narrative,” with moderator Linda Leavell and panelists John A. Farrell, Ruth Franklin, Caroline Fraser, and Tom Reiss.
https://biographersinternational.org/podcast-player/6206/podcast-episode-25-2019-bio-conference-panel-fire-up-your-narrative.mp3…
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August 9th, 2019
This week’s episode features highlights from a panel from the 2019 BIO Conference, “Telling Life Stories in These Chaotic Times,” with moderator John A. Farrell and panelist Sarah Burnes, Tim Duggan, and Katherine Flynn.
https://biographersinternational.org/podcast-player/6193/podcast-episode-24-2019-bio-conference-panel-telling-life-stories-in-these-chaotic-times.mp3…
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