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Welcome! Here’s where you’ll find fascinating conversations with biographers from around the country and the world, exploring the art and craft of bringing extraordinary lives to the page.

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Podcast #188 – Kenneth Miller

This week we interview award-winning journalist and author Kenneth Miller about his first biography, Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep. It was published in October 2023 by Hachette Books. Miller is a contr

September 27, 2024 30:15 Speakers: Kenneth Miller, Sonja Williams

Podcast #178 – Judith Tick

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 American Song, explores the life

May 17, 2024 28:32 Speakers: Judith Tick, Sonja Williams

Podcast #158 – Justin Martin

This week, we interview author Justin Martin, who specializes in meticulously researched and engagingly delivered American history books. His most recent, A Fierce Glory: Antietam, the Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery, was published

December 29, 2023 27:43 Speakers: Justin Martin, Sonja Williams

Podcast #149 – Caleb Gayle

This week we feature award-winning journalist and author Caleb Gayle, who writes about the history of race and identity. His latest book, We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity and Power (Riverhead Books, June 2023), is abou

October 27, 2023 28:56 Speakers: Caleb Gayle, Sonja Williams

Podcast #143 – Jonny Steinberg

This week we interview Jonny Steinberg, author of Winnie and Nelson Mandela: Portrait of a Marriage, published by Knopf in May 2023. Steinberg has written several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy, and he is

September 15, 2023 29:33 Speakers: Jonny Steinberg, Sonja Williams

Podcast #139 – E. James West

This week we interview E. James West, a historian and lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies and Cultures at England’s University College of London. He also serves as co-director of the Black Press Research Collective based at Johns Hopkins University in

June 23, 2023 27:30 Speakers: E. James West, Sonja Williams

Podcast #135 – Chad Williams

This week we interview Chad Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. His latest book, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War, was published in A

May 26, 2023 28:36 Speakers: Chad Williams, Sonja Williams

Podcast #132 – Ashley Brown

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

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