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Pt. 1: Politics and playwriting with Wallace Shawn. Pt. 2: The life of Bernard Shaw, with Michael Holroyd
American playwright Wallace Shawn on politics and playwriting. He reads from his monologue "The Fever" . British biographer Michael Holroyd on his third volume of the life of George Bernard Shaw, The Lure of Fantasy.
Michael Holroyd on his fascinating work, A Book of Secrets
Today on Writers and Company - Eleanor Wachtel interviews English biographer Michael Holroyd. He's written a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries - his own and others - in A Book of Secrets.
A conversation with Margaret Drabble on her novel The Pure Gold Baby
Several years ago, author Margaret Drabble said she was finished with fiction. Thankfully, she changed her mind. She has a new novel called The Pure Gold Baby. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with her onstage at the International Festival of Authors.
Biography Panel with Michael Holroyd and Victoria Glendinning
This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with two of England's most celebrated biographers, Victoria Glendinning and Michael Holroyd. Glendinning's lives of Jonathan Swift and Anthony Trollope and Holroyd's definitive works on George Bernard Shaw and Augustus John have established them as two of the most influential biographers of our time. They talk with Eleanor Wachtel about the pleasures and pitfalls of writing biography.
A conversation with Margaret Drabble and Michael Holroyd, part 1
Families and Memoir - or is it fiction? Part one of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with the popular English novelist, Margaret Drabble, and her husband, the biographer Michael Holroyd. They talk about memoir, biography and putting their lives on the page.
A panel on the ethics of literary biography, with Michael Holroyd, Alan Judd, and Diane Wood Middlebrook. Then, an interview and reading with Ann Beattie
Part I: Biographers Michael Holroyd (G.B. Shaw, Vol. 3, 1991, Little Brown), Alan Judd (Ford Madox Ford, 1990, Harvard), and Diane Wood Middlebrook (Anne Sexton: a Biography, 1991, T. Allen) discuss the ethics of literary biography; Part II: American fiction writer Ann Beattie discusses her writing about contemporary life and her latest story colletion, What Was Mine. Beattie reads from her story "A Windy Day at the Reservoir." (from Harbourfront, Toronto).
A literary biography panel with Margaret Drabble and Deirdre Bair. Also, an interview with South African poet Dennis Brutus
Today on Writers & Company, two remarkable writers discuss literary biography - English novelist Margaret Drabble, and the award-winning American biographer of Simone de Beauvoir, Deirdre bair. Eleanor also talks with South African expatriate poet Dennis Brutus.