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Podcast #264 – Andy Beta
Jun 19, 2026
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Podcast #263 – Steven C. Smith
Jun 12, 2026
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Podcast #262 – Steven C. Bowie
Jun 5, 2026
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Podcast #261 – Mary Lisa Gavenas
May 29, 2026
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Podcast #260 – Jon Meacham, Part II
May 22, 2026
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() Podcast #264 – Andy Beta | Photo by Natalie Keyssar Andy Beta is an award-winning arts and music writer. His newest book, Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, was published in March by Da Capo. His writing on rock, jazz, experimental, and electronic music has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Texas Monthly, NPR, We Jazz magazine, and many more. Andy Beta was interviewed by BIO member and podcast producer Karolyn van Putten. | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Podcast #263 – Steven C. Smith | Photo by Mark A. Vieir Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema was written by award-winning author Steven C. Smith. He is a four-time Emmy-nominated documentary producer of over 200 documentaries about film and music. Smith has collaborated with filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Stephen Sondheim, John Williams, Julie Andrews, and Sidney Poitier. His biographies of composers Bernard Herrmann and Max Steiner each received the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, and he has lectured at the Library of Congress, American Film Institute, Academy of Motion Pictures Museum, and other organizations. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, and the Los Angeles Times. Fellow biographer and BIO member Sonja Williams interviewed Steven C. Smith. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Podcast #262 – Steven C. Bowie | Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams, published by the University of Mississippi Press in October 2025, is this author’s exploration of the legendary trumpeter and longtime member of the Duke Ellington big band. A curator and host of the Duke Ellington-themed podcast Ellington Reflections, Bowie also has presented papers on Williams and Kenny Burrell for conferences held by the Duke Ellington Society of Sweden, and his articles have appeared in DownBeat and Jazz Improv magazines. Fellow biographer and BIO member Kevin McGruder interviewed Steven Bowie. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Podcast #261 – Mary Lisa Gavenas | Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay, published by Viking in April 2026, is this author’s latest book, which grew out of a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. It’s a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the book was praised by The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, Lit Hub, and other outlets for its lively cultural history of midcentury America, making Kirkus’s list of “Nonfiction Books That Read Like Novels.” A former editor at Glamour, Mirabella, and InStyle and columnist at ELLE, Gavenas has contributed to Fast Company, Health, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, and other national outlets. Her previous books include Color Stories: Behind the Scenes in America’s Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry and The Fairchild Encyclopedia of Menswear. Fellow biographer and BIO member Lisa Napoli interviewed Mary Lisa Gavenas. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Podcast #260 – Jon Meacham, Part II | Photo by Heidi Ross American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union, published by Random House in February 2026, is the latest book by this Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and historian. Meacham has authored New York Times bestsellers, including And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair at Vanderbilt University and is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Fellow biographer and BIO member John A. Farrell interviewed Jon Meacham. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Podcast #259 – Jon Meacham, Part I | Photo by Heidi Ross American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union, published by Random House in February 2026, is the latest book by this Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and historian. Meacham has authored New York Times bestsellers, including And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair at Vanderbilt University and is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Fellow biographer and BIO member John A. Farrell interviewed Jon Meacham. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Podcast #258 – Hester Kaplan✨ | biographyliterature+3 | Hester Kaplan | Catapult PressNational Endowment for the Arts+2 | — | Hester KaplanTwice Born+5 | — | 30m 59s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Podcast #257 – Adam Henig✨ | baseballbiography+3 | Adam Henig | Biographers International OrganizationSociety for American Baseball Research+5 | April 2026 | Ron LeFlorebiography+6 | — | 32m 15s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Podcast #256 – Gayle Feldman✨ | biographypublishing+3 | Gayle Feldman | Random HousePublishers Weekly+9 | — | Gayle FeldmanBennett Cerf+5 | — | 26m 06s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Podcast #255 – “Four Paths, One Impossible Dream,” Part VI: Still Writing✨ | biographywriting challenges+3 | Kate CulkinKevin McGruder+2 | Biographers International OrganizationBIO Podcast+4 | — | biographywriting+7 | — | 16m 54s | |
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| 4/10/26 | ![]() Podcast #254 – “Four Paths, One Impossible Dream,” Part V: Community and Solitude✨ | writing biographychallenges of authorship+3 | Sara BenincasaKate Culkin+2 | Biographers International OrganizationFour Paths, One Impossible Dream+2 | — | biographywriting advice+3 | — | 19m 08s | |
| 4/3/26 | ![]() Podcast #253 – “Four Paths, One Impossible Dream,” Part IV: Challenging the Canon✨ | biographyhistorical events+4 | Sara BenincasaKate Culkin+2 | Four Paths, One Impossible Dream | Harlem | biographyAbraham Lincoln+6 | — | 18m 08s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Podcast #252 – “Four Paths, One Impossible Dream,” Part III: The Business of Biography✨ | business of biographypublishing contracts+3 | Sara BenincasaKate Culkin+2 | Four Paths, One Impossible DreamAbraham Lincoln+2 | — | biographypublishing+4 | — | 16m 42s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Podcast #251 – “Four Paths, One Impossible Dream,” Part II: The Work✨ | biographywriting challenges+3 | Sara BenincasaKate Culkin+2 | Four Paths, One Impossible DreamAbraham Lincoln+2 | — | biographywriting+3 | — | 17m 34s | |
| 3/13/26 | ![]() Podcast #250 – “Four Paths, One Impossible Dream,” Part I✨ | biographyauthors+3 | Sara BenincasaKate Culkin+2 | — | — | biographyauthors+4 | — | 23m 48s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() Podcast #249 – David Margolick✨ | American comedybiography+3 | David Margolick | The New York TimesVanity Fair+6 | — | Sid CaesarDavid Margolick+5 | — | 28m 31s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Podcast #248 – Peter Cozzens✨ | American Civil WarAmerican West+3 | Peter Cozzens | Biographers International OrganizationThe Economist+3 | — | Peter CozzensAmerican West+3 | — | 32m 11s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() Podcast #247 – Ethelene Whitmire✨ | biographyhistory+3 | Ethelene Whitmire | Viking/Penguin Random HouseUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison+8 | — | Ethelene Whitmirebiography+3 | — | 30m 34s | |
| 2/13/26 | ![]() Podcast #246 – Andrew Maraniss | 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 Association’s Rainbow Book List, the RISE Feminist Book List, and Esquire’s 100 Best Baseball Books Ever Written. Maraniss directs special projects at the Vanderbilt University athletic department and manages the university’s Sports & Society Initiative. BIO member and BIO podcast producer Jenny Skoog interviewed Andrew Maraniss. | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | ![]() Podcast #245 – Ashley D. Farmer | 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 Harvard University, and the Whiting Foundation. Farmer’s insights have appeared in multiple venues, including Harper’s Bazaar, NPR, The Washington Post, and Teen Vogue. Fellow biographer and BIO member Tamara Payne interviewed Ashley D. Farmer. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | ![]() Podcast #244 – Andrew S. Curran | 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, a distinguished humanities professor at Wesleyan University, has written or edited six books, including Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter in the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. It was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and it won the Association of American Publishers Prose Award. Curran’s journalistic writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Paris Review, Il Pais, Folha de S. Paola and the Wall Street Journal. BIO member and BIO podcast producer Jenny Skoog interviewed Andrew Curran. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Podcast #243 – Carla Kaplan & Amanda Vaill | 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 latest books by these veteran authors. Carla Kaplan is an award-winning Northeastern University professor who has published seven previous books, including Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters and Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, both New York Times Notable Books. Amanda Vaill has authored three previous biographies, Hotel Florida, Somewhere, and the best-selling Everybody Was So Young – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She also co-authored, contributed to, or edited several books in the field of arts and culture. Vaill is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, and her journalism and criticism have appeared in many publications. In December 2025, Kaplan’s Troublemaker and Vail’s Pride and Pleasure biographies were longlisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards. In this special episode, Kaplan and Vaill interview each other about their research and writing journeys. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Podcast #242 – Ron Chernow, Part II | 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 House of Morgan, won the National Book Award. Chernow’s Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. Ron Chernow, a former president of PEN America, has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is one of only three living biographers to have won the Gold Medal for Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fellow biographer and BIO member John A. Farrell interviewed him. Listen to part one of the interview here. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Podcast #241 – Ron Chernow, Part I | 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 House of Morgan, won the National Book Award. Chernow’s Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. Ron Chernow has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is one of only three living biographers to have won the Gold Medal for Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This past president of PEN America was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member John A. Farrell. | — | ||||||
| 12/26/25 | ![]() Podcast #240 – Todd Goddard | 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 studies at Utah Valley University, and the Mellon Foundation and a Bordin-Gillette Fellowship from the University of Michigan have funded his work. BIO member and BIO Podcast Producer Jenny Skoog interviewed Goddard. Note: BIO, the Biographers International Organization’s podcast series, will return on January 9, 2026, with a special episode featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow, whose fascinating books include examinations of Alexander Hamilton, Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, and his latest biography of Mark Twain. | — | ||||||
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