Posts by Olivia Hamilton-Foster

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Tim Dobbyn chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Black, White + Colour: A Biography of Mervyn Bishop Australia’s First Indigenous Professional Photographer.

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joshua Kendall chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art.

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr James Bailey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Nigel Cameron chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Dr Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kathryn Heyman chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting her memoir Fury and seventh novel, Circle of Wonders.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, one of Australia’s most celebrated literary figures, Robert Dessaix chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Chameleon: A Memoir of Art, Travel, Ideas and Love, which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Biography Award.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the award-winning playwright and author S. Shakthidharan, who is known as Shakthi, chats with me about his choices while crafting, Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Biography Award.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, acclaimed classical music critic and novelist, Sophia Lambton, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography, her biography of Maria Callas, the legendary operatic soprano and lyrical enigma. Maria Callas would have turned 100 on 2 December 2023, and in honour of her centennial, Sophia Lambton published The Callas Imprint.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, author, essayist and journalist, Erin Vincent, chats with me about her choices while crafting Fourteen Ways of Looking. Her narrative is at the forefront of one of the defining literary movements of our moment, the turn towards hybrid, genre-blurring life writing, offering exciting new possibilities for life writers.

What really happened when Charles Mountford led a quarrelsome team of Australian and American scientists to explore traditional First Nations life in Arnhem Land? That’s the question the award-winning historian Dr Martin Thomas explores in Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948.