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

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

From Biographers International Organization by Biographers International Organization

March 13, 2026 · 24 min

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The episode introduces a six-part miniseries following four authors on their biographical journeys.

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 finishing a book proposal about five influential women while pregnant with her third child. BIO member Jenny Skoog sat down with each of these writers to ask the obvious question: who gets to write biography?

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Host: Jenny Skoog

Guests: Sara Benincasa, Kate Culkin, Kevin McGruder, Katie Rose Quandt

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