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Podcast #250 – “Four Paths, One Impossible Dream,”...

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/03/13

This time, we present the first episode in a special six-part miniseries that follows four authors on their biographical path. We spent the last eight months of 2025 with comedian Sara Benincasa who is tackling Abraham Lincoln; professor Kate Culkin is publishing a book about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s daughters that nobody taught her how to promote; historian Kevin McGruder has been carrying around his subject, Harlem Renaissance writer Rudolph Fisher, for decades; and journalist Katie Rose Quandt is

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Podcast #249 – David Margolick

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/03/06

When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy is the latest book by veteran journalist and author David Margolick. Published by Schocken in November 2025, this book examines the life of one of America’s most enigmatic and influential comedians. Margolick reported on legal affairs for The New York Times, and he was then a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. His many books include Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and A World on the Brink, Strange Fruit: The Biography of a

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Podcast #248 – Peter Cozzens

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/02/27

Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West (Knopf, 2025) is the latest book by this award-winning author and editor of nineteen books on the American Civil War and the American West. A retired Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State, Cozzens also served as a captain in the U. S. Army. His previous book, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, received the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Prize for the best military history work in the English

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Podcast #247 – Ethelene Whitmire

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/02/20

This author’s The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love was published by Viking/Penguin Random House this month. Whitmire is a respected historian and African American Studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research has won awards and funding from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Programs, and the American Library Association, and she has been invited to residences at Yaddo, Ucross, Hedgebrook, and the Virginia Center for

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Podcast #246 – Andrew Maraniss

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/02/13

Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South (Vanderbilt University, March 2024) is the tenth anniversary edition of this author’s award-winning, New York Times bestselling biography. Maraniss has authored nonfiction sports and social justice books for adults, teens, and children, and his books have received numerous honors, including the Lillian Smith Book Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Special Recognition Honor. He has been named to the American Library

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Podcast #245 – Ashley D. Farmer

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/02/06

Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audrey Moore, published by Pantheon in November 2025, is this latest book by this internationally known and award-winning writer, cultural analyst, and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Farmer’s first book, Remaking Black Power, was shortlisted for numerous prizes, and she has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at

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Podcast #244 – Andrew S. Curran

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/01/30

This author and scholar’s latest book, Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson, will be published in February 2026 by Other Press. Curran, […]

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Podcast #243 – Carla Kaplan & Amanda Vaill

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/01/23

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford and Pride (Harper, November 2025) and Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, October 2025) are the […]

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Podcast #242 – Ron Chernow, Part II

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/01/16

Mark Twain, published in May 2025 by Penguin Press, is this celebrated, multiple award-winning biographer’s latest book. Chernow is the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal, and his first book, The […]

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Podcast #241 – Ron Chernow, Part I

Biographers International Organization ·

2026/01/09

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Podcast #240 – Todd Goddard

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/12/26

Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, A Writer’s Life, is the latest book by this scholar and author, published in November 2025 by Blackstone Publishing. Goddard is an associate professor of literary […]

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Podcast #239 – Daniel Brook

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/12/19

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfield, Visionary of Weimar Berlin, is this journalist and author’s latest book. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company in May 2025. […]

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Podcast #238 – Cindy Schweich Handler

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/12/12

This journalist’s biography, A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany, was published by McFarland in April 2025. Handler’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington […]

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Podcast #237 – Marion Orr

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/12/05

House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr., is the latest book by this political scientist and the inaugural Frederick Lippitt Professor of […]

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Podcast #236 – Tim Grieving

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/11/28

John Williams: A Composer’s Life, published by Oxford University Press in September 2025, is the first biography by this arts journalist. Grieving, a longtime fan of Williams’ celebrated film scores, has contributed […]

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Podcast #235 – Francesca Wade

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/11/21

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, published by Scribner in October 2025, is the latest book by London-based author Francesca Wade. Additionally, Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between […]

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Podcast #234 – Todd S. Purdum

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/11/14

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, published by Simon and Schuster in June 2025, is the latest book by this veteran journalist and author. Purdum also authored Something Wonderful: Rodgers […]

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Podcast #233 – Dana A. Williams

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/11/07

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship, the latest book by author Dana A. Williams about Toni Morrison’s significant tenure as an editor at Random House, was published by […]

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Podcast #232 – James M. Bradley

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/10/31

Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician is James M. Bradley’s current book. It was published in December 2024 by Oxford University Press. Bradley co-edits the Martin Van Buren Papers, based […]

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Podcast #231 – Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Biographers International Organization ·

2025/10/24

This historian and author’s latest book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2024. Her other books include the […]

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