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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Cathy Perkins chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, the biography of Zora Cross, a prolific writer who caused a literary sensation in 1917 with her provocative series of erotic sonnets that celebrated sexual passion.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, veteran American biographer Carl Rollyson chats with Gabriella about his two-volume biography of William Faulkner, a giant of literature who won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The first volume: The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead is followed by The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox. Carl also published William Faulkner Day by Day, which provides a unique insight into the minute of Faulkner’s daily life and relationships.