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This week we feature the first segment of a special two-part interview with award-winning biographer, Stacy Schiff. Her latest book, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, was published by Little, Brown, and Company in October 2022. Schiff is the author of se
May 5, 2023 28:36 Speakers: John A. Farrell, Stacy Schiff
This week we interview Ashley Brown, assistant history professor and the Allan H. Selig Chair in Sport and Society in U.S. History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her biography, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson, was published
May 5, 2023 28:36 Speakers: Ashley Brown, Sonja Williams
This week we interview RJ Smith, author of Chuck Berry: An American Life, published in November 2022 by Hachette Books. Smith is a senior editor at Los Angeles Magazine, a contributor to Details, a columnist for The Village Voice and a staff writer for S
April 28, 2023 29:55 Speakers: Kevin McGruder, RJ Smith
This special episode features excerpts from a conversation between award-winning journalist and author Andrew Meier and fellow biographer and BIO member Kai Bird. Meier’s latest book, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty, was
April 21, 2023 47:39 Speakers: Andrew Meier, Kai Bird
This week we interview Helen Rappaport, the British author of sixteen highly regarded biographies. Her latest book, In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian, was published by Pegasus Books in September 2022. Rappapo
April 14, 2023 28:05 Speakers: Helen Rappaport, Jennifer Skoog
This week we interview Andrew Nagorski, an award-winning journalist and author of Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom, published by Simon and Schuster in August 2022. Nagorski spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and
April 7, 2023 30:32 Speakers: Andrew Nagorski, Kitty Kelley
This week we interview Lydia Moland, professor of philosophy at Colby College and author of Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life, published by in the University of Chicago Press in October 2022. This biography explores the life of one of the ninete
March 31, 2023 30:51 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog, Lydia Moland
This week we interview Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos, a historian, journalist, and author of The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd. It was published by Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins, in November 2022. She is also th
March 17, 2023 30:58 Speakers: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos, Lisa Napoli