Patricia Lockwood talks with Maria Sequeira Mendes

The Art of Biography

Although Patricia Lockwood is not the author of biographies, the North American writer’s memoir is a good example of how to write a humorous biographical book. In conversation with Maria Sequeira Mendes, Lockwood addresses her references and her work.
26 Apr 2024 50 min
The Art of Biography

Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel No One Is Talking About This, an international bestseller, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, finalist for the Booker Prize, and translated into 30 languages. Her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the Guardian’s 100 best books of the 21st century.

Invited to discuss ‘the art of biography’ in an international conference dedicated to this form of literature, Patricia Lockwood is also the author of two poetry collections, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014) and Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (2012). Her work was published on the New York Times, the New Yorker and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.

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The Art of Biography

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