June 4th, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview Patrick Parr, author of One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation, published March 2021 by Chicago Review Press. Parr’s narrative is a day-by-day examination of a week that began with President Lyndon B. Johnson announcement that he would not seek re-election and ended with the fallout created by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s the assassination. Parr includes never-before-published letters from festival attendees Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man), Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five), and Norman Mailer (The Naked and the Dead). Parr was interviewed via Zoom in his home in Yokohama, Japan, on February 25, 2021 by writer and BIO member Lisa Napoli.
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Tags: authors, biographers, biography, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, One Week in America, Patrick Parr, podcast, Ralph Ellison, writers
May 21st, 2021
In this week’s episode we interview Alison M. Parker, author of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell, published by the University of North Carolina Press in December 2020. Parker’s book is the first full-length biography of Terrell, one of the most prominent African American activists of her time, and whose career bridged the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Parker, a history professor and department chair at the University of Delaware, was interviewed by BIO member Lisa Napoli via Zoom in April 2021.
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Tags: Alison M. Parker, authors, biographers, biography, Mary Church Terrell, podcast, writers
May 7th, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview Janice P. Nimura, author of The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, published in January 2021 by W. W. Norton & Company. Her previous book, Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, was a New York Times notable book in 2015. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, The Rumpus, and LitHub, among other publications. Nimura was interviewed by writer and BIO member Lisa Napoli via Zoom on March 18th, 2021.
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Tags: authors, biographers, biography, Doctors Blackwell, Janice P. Nimura, podcast, writers
April 23rd, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview former lawyer and college professor Jayne E. Zanglein, author of The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World, published March 2, 2021, by Sourcebooks. Zanglein was interviewed in her home in North Carolina on March 18th, 2021, via Zoom by writer and BIO member Lisa Napoli.
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Tags: authors, biographers, biography, Jayne E. Zanglein, podcast, The Girl Explorers, writers
April 9th, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview Martha Ackmann, author of These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson, published Feb 25, 2021, by W. W. Norton & Company. Ackmann’s award-winning books include The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight, and Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, First Woman to Play Profession Baseball in the Negro League. Ackmann was interviewed in her home in western Massachusetts on March 10, 2021, via Zoom by writer and BIO member Lisa Napoli.
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Tags: authors, biographers, biography, Emily Dickinson, Martha Ackmann, podcast, These Fevered Days, writers
March 26th, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview Stephen Heyman, author of The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution, published April 14, 2020, by W.W. Norton & Company. Heyman, a former features editor for The New York Times Style Magazine, also has written for The Times, Slate, Vogue, and many other publications. He was interviewed in his home in Pittsburgh on March 10, 2021, via Zoom by writer and BIO member Lisa Napoli.
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Tags: authors, biographers, biography, Louis Bromfield, podcast, Stephen Heyman, writers
March 19th, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview Hilary Holladay, author of The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography, published November 17, 2020, by Nan A. Talese. Holladay was interviewed in her home in Orange Country, Virginia, on March 8, 2021, via Zoom by writer and BIO member Lisa Napoli.
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Tags: Adrienne Rich, authors, biographers, biography, Hilary Holladay, podcast, writers
March 5th, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview three-time biographer David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, a new single-volume biography of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt released by Simon and Schuster in October 2020. Michaelis was interviewed in his home in Westchester County, New York, on February 11, 2021, via Zoom, by writer and BIO member Lisa Napoli.
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Tags: authors, biographers, David Michaelis, Eleanor Roosevelt, podcast, writers
