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Podcast #224 – Eve M. Kahn

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2025/09/05

This independent scholar and award-winning author’s latest book, Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris, was published this month by Fordham University Press. It explores the life of […]

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Podcast #223 – A’Lelia Bundles

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2025/06/27

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance is the latest book by this award-winning journalist and author. Published by Scribner this June, it is the first major biography of Bundles’ […]

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Podcast #222 – Marc Leepson

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2025/06/20

This journalist, historian, and Vietnam War veteran is the author of eleven books. His most recent book, The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience […]

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Podcast #221 – Charlotte Jacobs

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2025/06/13

90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey, published by Potomac Books this month, is this author’s biography of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow—a passionate Japanese individual whose lifelong endeavors helped safeguard […]

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Podcast #220 – Prathibha Kanakamedala

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2025/06/06

Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough is this author’s first full-length book. It was published by New York University Press in September 2024. […]

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Podcast #219 – Alex Beam

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2025/05/30

In Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writers, published by Signature Books in February 2025, this longtime Boston Globe columnist and author takes readers on a brisk and riveting journey through Stegner’s life […]

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Podcast #218 – Adam Plunkett

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2025/05/23

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry is literary critic Adam Plunkett’s first biography. His exploration of the life and creativity of one of America’s favorite 20th-century poets was published […]

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Podcast #217 – David Levering Lewis

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2025/05/16

In this special episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, National Humanities Medal recipient, and New York University history professor emeritus David Levering Lewis discusses his latest book—a sweeping exploration of his own […]

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Podcast #216 – Janice Engel

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2025/05/09

This award-winning filmmaker, showrunner and Academy of Art University professor, talks about her documentary film, Raise HELL: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 […]

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Podcast #215 – Caitlin Cass and Lisa Napoli

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2025/05/02

These authors talk about a few of the different forms of biography. Caitlin Cass’s graphic book, Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S., was named […]

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Podcast #214 – Steve Paul

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2025/04/25

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 […]

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Podcast #213 – Dawn Porter

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/04/18

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 […]

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Podcast #212 – Carol Sklenicka & Yepoka Yeebo

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2025/04/11

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 […]

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Podcast #211 – Heather Clark & Stephen Enniss

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2025/04/04

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 […]

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Podcast #210 – Linda Leavell & Natalie Dykstra

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2025/03/28

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 […]

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Podcast #209 – James McGrath Morris

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2025/03/21

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, […]

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Podcast #208 – Ray Anthony Shepard

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2025/03/14

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 […]

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Podcast #207 – Jared Stearns

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2025/03/07

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 […]

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Podcast #206 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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2025/02/28

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, […]

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Podcast #205 – Mary Frances Phillips

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2025/02/21

This historian and author’s Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, was published in January 2025 by New York University Press. It examines the life and legacy […]

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