Biographers in Conversation

Biographer Gabriella Kelly-Davies chats with biographers across the world about the myriad of choices they make while researching, writing and publishing life stories. In every episode, she explores elements of narrative strategy such as structure, use of fiction techniques, facts and truth, beginnings and endings and to what extent the writer interpreted the evidence rather than providing clues and leaving it to readers to do the interpreting themselves. She also asks how they researched their books; how they balanced a subject’s public, personal and inner lives; and ethical issues, such as privacy and revealing secrets.

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Thursday Feb 29, 2024

Biographers in Conversation Sneak Peek

Thursday Feb 29, 2024

Welcome to Biographers in Conversation, a podcast about the many choices biographers make while researching, writing, and publishing life stories.
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Stay tuned for the launch of Biographers in Conversation on the 3 April 2024.
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About

Hello. I’m Gabriella Kelly-Davies, a biographer endlessly fascinated by the multiplicity of choices biographers make when crafting a life story. When you read a biography, do you feel like you’re in the story living the biographical subject’s life, feeling what they’re feeling and seeing what they’re seeing? To stimulate your imagination this way, biographers make hundreds of decisions about how they research and write their books. It’s these choices I’ll explore with them in my new podcast, Biographers in Conversation.