Writing Lives: Biography and Beyond
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Devaki Jain & Gloria Steinem: Writing a Radical Life
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Noted feminist economist Devaki Jain talks about writing her memoir, The Brass Notebook (2020), with her long-term friend, Gloria Steinem. They are ho...
John Schad & Alexandra Harris: Imagining a Modernist Life
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Schad’s experimental biography, Paris Bride: A Modernist Life, mixes fact and fiction as it speculates on the life of one of his ancestors, Mar...
Helena Attlee & Sophy Roberts: writing the lives of musical instruments
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helena Attlee and Sophy Roberts have both written "biographies" of musical instruments. Sophy Roberts’s book, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, sees her t...
Tamarin Norwood: Writing a very brief life
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tamarin Norwood discusses her current project: writing the brief life of her son, Gabriel, who died shortly after his birth. Reflecting on her backgro...
Heather Clark & Hermione Lee: Sylvia Plath, an iconic life
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Clark discusses her new and highly praised biography of Sylvia Plath with celebrated biographer Hermione Lee, as well as Oxford University stu...
Richard Mabey & Alexandra Harris: Lives of Naturalists Part 2
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this follow up discussion to Episode 1, Richard Mabey, Alexandra Harris, and Katherine Collins discuss the connections between life-writing and pla...
Richard Mabey & Alexandra Harris: Lives of Naturalists Part 1
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrated nature writer Richard Mabey discusses the relationship between biography, nature, and place with literary critic Alexandra Harris. They del...
Trailer
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A first look at the new podcast series by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Co-hosts Kate Kennedy and Katherine Collins introduce themselves and the...