New Books in Biography
Interviews with Biographers about their New Books
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- Interviews with Biographers about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-20 21:58
- last episode published
- 2024-11-20 09:00
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- 3.77 days
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- 1624
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-20 | How do we become the persons we are? Cornelia Maude Spelman's Solace (Jackleg Press, 2024) seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional legacies and psychological landscapes that shaped the author's life, Solace unfurls in a series of vig... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023) In The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass Ceiling (2023), Connie DeNave shares her experiences in the public relations world during the British Invasion and the beginning of rock-n-roll marketing. Born in Brooklyn, New York, DeNave graduated... |
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| 2024-11-17 |
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024) When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-c... |
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| 2024-11-17 |
Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016) General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China (Cambridge UP, 2016) is a revisionist study of the career of General He Yingqin, one of the most prominent military officers in China's Nationalist period (1928-49) and one of the most misunder... |
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| 2024-11-16 | In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such pos... |
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| 2024-11-15 | Today I talked to David Tereshchuk about his memoir A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter (Envelope Books, 2024) Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying ... |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024) Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately wanted were impossibly opposed. Tormented by her attraction to women and trapped in a loveless arranged... |
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| 2024-11-12 |
Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into English. It contains his most important pedagogical writings, journal articles, as well as private texts. ... |
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| 2024-11-10 |
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024) In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV throug... |
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| 2024-11-09 |
Rachel Zimmerman, "Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide" (SFWP, 2024) Note: This episodes contains references to suicide. When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the m... |
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