240 Biography and a Biographer's Work

Ben Franklin's World

English - May 28, 2019 05:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 988 ratings
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Have you ever had one of those really conversations where the person was so fascinating that you wished the conversation didn’t have to end?

Flora Fraser joins us for one of those conversations. We’ll talk about biography, and in doing so, she’ll tell us what it was like to grow up as the daughter and granddaughter of two famed, British biographers and about the genre of biography and how it developed in the United Kingdom.

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