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Podcast #213 – Dawn Porter

Photo: Kevin Scanlon This celebrated documentary filmmaker is the recipient of the 2025 BIO Award – Biographers International Organization’s annual recognition of a distinguished colleague who has made significant contributions to the art and craft of bi

April 17, 2025 33:51 Speakers: A’Lelia Bundles, Dawn Porter

Podcast #212 – Carol Sklenicka & Yepoka Yeebo

These celebrated authors talk about BIO’s Plutarch Award for Biography – the organization’s annual recognition of the year’s best biography, as determined by a committee of five distinguished biographers from nominations by BIO members and publishers. Fi

April 10, 2025 31:38 Speakers: Carol Sklenicka, Jennifer Skoog, Yepoka Yeebo

Podcast #211 – Heather Clark & Stephen Enniss

These guests talk about the awards that BIO offers for biographers. Heather Clarks is an author, literary critic and chair of BIO’s awards committee. Her most recent book, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, was one of the New York

April 3, 2025 27:07 Speakers: Heather Clark, Jennifer Skoog, Stephen Enniss

Podcast #210 – Linda Leavell & Natalie Dykstra

These pivotal BIO members share their experience as co-chairs of BIO’s June 5-6, 2025 annual conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Linda Leavell served as BIO’s president from 2019 to 2023, and her biography of American poet Marianne M

March 28, 2025 26:27 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog, Linda Leavell, Natalie Dykstra

Podcast #209 – James McGrath Morris

In this special episode, BIO’s former president and one of the organization’s founders, talks about the history of BIO and its influence. In 2019 McGrath Morris received the BIO Award, annually presented to a writer who has made a major contribution to t

March 20, 2025 21:31 Speakers: James McGrath Morris, Jennifer Skoog

Podcast #208 – Ray Anthony Shepard

This award-winning author of biographers for young readers talks about his writing career and his long-term service as a founding BIO board member. His most recent book, A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America From Ona Judge to Barack

March 13, 2025 20:03 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog, Ray Anthony Shepard

Podcast #207 – Jared Stearns

This first-time biographer’s, Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers, explores the untold story of the world’s most famous X-rated star. Chambers rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow laundry detergent and the star of the X-rated film, Behind

March 6, 2025 30:07 Speakers: Jared Stearns, Simon Read

Podcast #206 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs

This scholar and author’s latest book, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in August 2024. As a queer Black feminist love evangelist, Gumbs has written four earlier books, including Undrown

February 28, 2025 29:53 Speakers: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Tamara Payne

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