Location:
United States
Description:
Sharing a passion for biography!
Language:
English
Episodes
Podcast #180 – Adam Nagourney
5/31/2024
This week we interview Adam Nagourney, veteran journalist and author of, The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn and the Transformation of Journalism, published by Crown Press in September 2023. […]
Duration:00:21:11
Podcast #179 – Barbara D. Savage
5/24/2024
This week we interview award-winning author and first-time biographer, Barbara D. Savage. Her latest book, Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar, is an incisive examination of a scholar who […]
Duration:00:30:07
Podcast #178 – Judith Tick
5/17/2024
This week we interview Judith Tick, a Matthews Distinguished Professor Emerita at Northeastern University in Boston, and an award-winning author. Her latest book, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed […]
Duration:00:28:32
Podcast #177 – Hampton Sides
5/10/2024
This week we interview celebrated author Hampton Sides. His latest book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, was published by Doubleday in […]
Duration:00:25:55
Podcast #176 – Scott Shane
5/3/2024
This week we interview Scott Shane, author of Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland. Published by Celadon Press in September 2023, Shane has written […]
Duration:00:28:37
Podcast #175 – Cynthia Carr
4/26/2024
This week we interview award winning author Cynthia Carr, whose latest book, Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar, was published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in March 2024. Carr’s previous biographies include, […]
Duration:00:26:16
Podcast #174 – Larry Rohter
4/19/2024
This week we interview journalist Larry Rohter, author of the biography about a brilliant Brazilian explorer. Rohter’s Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and […]
Duration:00:29:40
Podcast #173 – Danny Fingeroth
4/12/2024
This week we interview Danny Fingeroth, a veteran biographer and cultural historian/commentator who specializes in history at the intersection of Jewish and American cultures. His latest book, Jack Ruby: The Many Faces […]
Duration:00:21:54
Podcast #172 – Jack Kelly
4/5/2024
This week we interview Jack Kelly, an award-winning author and historian. Kelly’s latest book, God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man, was published in December 2023 by […]
Duration:00:31:42
Podcast #171 – Joy-Ann Reid
3/29/2024
This week we interview Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC’s The Reid Out and a New York Times bestselling author. Reid’s latest book, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, was published by Mariner […]
Duration:00:29:36
Podcast #170 – Natalie Dykstra
3/22/2024
This week we interview award-winning author Natalie Dykstra. Her latest biography, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, will be published by Mariner on March 26, 2024. Dykstra’s work on Stewart […]
Duration:00:27:38
Podcast #169 – Nicholas L. Syrett
3/15/2024
This week we interview Nicholas L. Syrett, the author of four books and most recently, The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make […]
Duration:00:31:47
Podcast #168 – J. C. Hallman
3/8/2024
This week we interview J. C. Hallman, author of Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health, published by Henry Holt and Company in June […]
Duration:00:27:30
Podcast #167 – Rachel Shteir
3/1/2024
This week we interview author and theater arts professor Rachel Shteir, whose latest book, Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor, was published by Yale University Press in September 2023. Friedan was the trendsetting feminist writer […]
Duration:00:30:50
Podcast #166 – Doug Melville
2/23/2024
This week we interview author Doug Melville, whose first biography, Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals, was published by Atria/Black Privilege Press in […]
Duration:00:28:02
Podcast #165 – Rachel Jamison Webster
2/16/2024
This week we interview Rachel Jamison Webster, professor of creative writing at Northwestern University and the author of four books of poetry and cross-genre writing. Her latest book, Benjamin Banneker and Us: […]
Duration:00:30:48
Podcast #164 – David Waldstreicher
2/9/2024
This week we interview David Waldstreicher, a history professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and author of his latest book, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: a Poet’s Journeys Through […]
Duration:00:27:35
Podcast #163 – Tanisha C. Ford
2/2/2024
This week we interview Tanisha C. Ford, a cultural critic, educator, and author. Her latest book, Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon, and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil […]
Duration:00:29:42
Podcast #162 – Dean King
1/26/2024
This week we interview Dean King whose latest book, Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite, was published by Scribner in March 2023. King is an award-winning […]
Duration:00:29:06
Podcast #161 – Brad Snyder
1/19/2024
This week we interview Brad Snyder, author of Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2022. As a Georgetown […]
Duration:00:27:42