New Biography Podcasts

Basketball Journeys

24 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago
Join us each week for shared stories, insight and humor from a life in basketball. As a coach, seasoned traveler and part-time writer for over 30 years, Pat Price and his guest hosts connect with o...

Text, Prose & RocknRoll

80 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago
Text, Prose & RocknRoll is the only podcast dedicated to the documented account of musicians, rock biographers, and documentarians. A MUST for fans of Fresh Air & Behind the Music. Hosted by Emmy n...

Women of HERstory: A Podcast

178 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★ - 37 ratings
Hosted by Heather Ashley and Joe Ortiz, Women of HERstory: A Podcast is a twice weekly podcast dedicated to celebrating and recognizing women who made, or are making their mark on our society. The ...

Once Upon A Time: A Storytelling Podcast

48 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago
We are all storytellers. Hosted by Talia Smith, we invite artists, activist, and archivists from around the world to share their favorite stories. Once Upon a Time: A Storytelling Podcast's mission...

Zelda's Peaches & Biscuits Podcast

21 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago
Exploring All Things Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald!

Reach and Reflect

7 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Reach and Reflect is a podcast about guiding lost souls, featuring a focus on values, meaning, fulfillment, and tapping into your potential - as spoken by guests who have achieved a respectable pos...

David Maraniss, Ink in Our Blood

24 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago
Join David Maraniss, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, in conversation with his daughter, the writer Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff, as they illuminate the craft of non-fiction writi...

BACK TO YOUR STORY

144 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Welcome to Back To Your Story. A podcast about real people and real stories. The journey of life has always fascinated BTYS host Brock Goldberg. Listen as he takes you down the rabbit hole filled w...

Terrible Omens

16 episodes - Latest episode: about 4 years ago
Alane Gray presents her award-winning creative non-fiction memoir Terrible Omens: Happiness is the Other Way. This darkly witty, fast-paced ride through a fifteen-year relationship is an unflinchin...

Narco Mindset Podcast with Jorge Valdes Ph.D.

85 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Narco Mindset is an enlightening, informative, effortlessly entertaining podcast. It contains compelling RAW storytelling and intellectually honest talk about life. We will be delving into life c...

Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This autobiographical work describes the author’s harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay by dog team on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland.

Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Long before Christiane Amanpour, Frances Fitzgerald and Martha Gellhorn blazed a trail in courageous investigative journalism, a pioneering and intrepid writer and journalist whose pen name was Nel...

William the Conqueror by Jacob Abbott

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of...

Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 7 ratings
This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a s...

Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens’ works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style.

Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
The French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal once remarked, “Cleopatra's nose. Had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed!” Such was the legendary power and...

Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Tutored by Aristotle, compelled to ascend the throne at the age of 20 when his illustrious father was assassinated, driven by a passion for expanding the borders of his tiny kingdom, Alexander of M...

Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 25 ratings
The history of a woman who rose above and beyond tragedy, grief and personal loss to become one of the most powerful figures in sixteenth century Europe is wonderfully told in this biography Queen ...

Acres of Diamonds by Russell Herman Conwell

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Text of famous inspirational lecture and biography of Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister and Temple University Founder

Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by William R. Lighton

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark – In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where th...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 18 ratings
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation. He faced hardship as a child, but later encountered owners who were relatively liberal and allowed him to learn to read, write and...

Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
“The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many w...

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an...

Childhood (English trans.) by Leo Tolstoy

18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediat...

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by Nellie Bly

18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Wearing o...

Mid-Americana: Stories from a Changing Midwest

16 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
Mid-Americana explores the history and identity of the Greater Midwest through the lives and stories of individual people. Our second season, Immigration, features eight stories from people who lef...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

23 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratings
Two years, two months and two days! This is what forms the time line of one man's quest for the simple life and a unique social experiment in complete self reliance and independence. Henry David Th...

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Anonymous

19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under ci...

Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott

20 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
“There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Mus...

Sensory Deprivation

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Can’t sleep? Listen to inspiring guest discussions on self-reflection and the creativity and passions that anchor them.