New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech

   Published: 2/17/2025
2. Caroline Topperman, "Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family's Search across History for Belonging" (HCI, 2024)

   Published: 2/16/2025
3. Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)

   Published: 2/15/2025
4. Jay Prosser, "Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns" (Black Spring Press, 2024)

   Published: 2/14/2025
5. The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

   Published: 2/13/2025
6. Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)

   Published: 2/11/2025
7. Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 2/11/2025
8. Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)

   Published: 2/8/2025
9. Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 2/6/2025
10. Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra

    Published: 2/6/2025
11. Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/4/2025
12. Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)

    Published: 2/4/2025
13. Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/3/2025
14. Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)

    Published: 2/3/2025
15. Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Australia's Modern Women Pioneered Our Romance with the United States" (New South, 2024)

    Published: 2/2/2025
16. Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)

    Published: 2/1/2025
17. Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/30/2025
18. About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

    Published: 1/30/2025
19. Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/29/2025
20. Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 1/28/2025