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Podcast #214 – Steve Paul

Photo: Julie Denesha As the president of the Biographers International Organization, Steve Paul talks about the organization’s exciting new initiatives in 2025 and beyond. Paul spent more than 40 years in daily journalism and now, as an independent schol

April 24, 2025 21:45 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog, Steve Paul

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 #193 – Susan Blumberg-Kason

Author Susan Blumberg-Kason talks about her latest book, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China, published by Post Hill Press in November 2023. Blumberg-Kason has also authored Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone

November 1, 2024 27:50 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog

Podcast #189 – Katie Gee Salisbury

This week we interview Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong, a new biography of the first Asian American movie star. This biography was published by Dutton in March 2024. Gee Salisbury’s work h

October 4, 2024 24:31 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog, Katie Gee Salisbury

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