Jacqueline Kent: A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life
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Ashleigh Wilson: Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening
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Christie Lowrance: Nature’s Ambassador
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro: The Stowaway. A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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Melanie Nolan: The ADB’s Story
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Melinda M. Ponder. Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea
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Jacqueline Kent: A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Jacqueline Kent chats with Gabriella about her choices while writing A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life, the biography of Beatrice Davis, Australia’s doyenne of publishing.
Read MoreAshleigh Wilson: Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ashleigh Wilson chats with Gabriella about the choices he made while writing A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening.
Read MoreChristie Lowrance: Nature’s Ambassador
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Christie Lowrance chats with Gabriella about her choices while writing Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, the children’s author and naturalist.
Read MoreLaurie Gwen Shapiro: The Stowaway. A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Laurie Gwen Shapiro chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, the true story of Billy Gawronski, a New York teenager, who stowed away on a ship bound for Antarctica in 1928.
Read MoreMelanie Nolan: The ADB’s Story
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Melanie Nolan, Director of Australia’s National Centre of Biography, chats with Gabriella about her book, The ADB’s Story, the history of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB).
Read MoreMelinda M. Ponder. Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Melinda Ponder shares with Gabriella her choices while writing the biography of the nineteenth century poet, writer, teacher and social activist, Katharine Lee Bates.
Read MoreJudith Brett: The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Judith Brett, the acclaimed political historian, chats with Gabriella about her choices while writing The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, the biography of Alfred Deakin, Australia’s second Prime Minister. The Enigmatic Mr Deakin won the 2018 National Biography Award and was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, NSW Premier’s History Awards and Queensland Literary Awards.
Read MoreJoshua Kendall: The Man Who Made Lists. Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus.
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joshua Kendall chats with Gabriella about his choices while writing The Man Who Made Lists, his biography of Peter Mark Roget, the eighteenth-century polymath who created the legendary Roget’s Thesaurus.
Read MoreRyan Cropp: Donald Horne. A Life in the Lucky Country
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ryan Cropp shares with Gabriella the multiplicity of choices he made while writing Donald Horne. A Life in the Lucky Country, the biography of Donald Horne, a prominent and outspoken Australian journalist, writer, public intellectual and social critic. Last week, The State Library of NSW shortlisted A Life in the Lucky Country for the 2024 National Biography Award.
Read MoreMarcia Biederman: The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Marcia Biederman shares with Gabriella her approach to writing The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill, Abortion, Death and Concealment in Victorian New England.
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