What does it mean to write about a country from the inside out, to bear witness to revolution, collapse and catastrophe, then find the words to enable readers to grasp the enormity of these experiences?

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the journalist, editor and author Dr Deborah FitzGerald chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar.

Continuing our focus on pioneering women during Women’s History Month, Lucy Sussex and Dr Megan Brown chat with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies in this Biographers in Conversation interview about their choices while researching and crafting Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son George. Together, Lucy and Megan resurrect a woman who vanished from literary history despite publishing over 500 crime stories across four decades in colonial Melbourne.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dava Sobel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Jacqueline Kent chats with Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Inconvenient Women: Australian Radical Writers 1900-1970.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Professor Emeritus Mark Hussey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while researching and crafting Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Nicholas Boggs chats with Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Baldwin: A Love Story. James Baldwin was one of the major literary figures of the 20th century. In 1953, he rocketed to fame with the publication of his first novel: Go Tell It On The Mountain. Two years later, he published his debut collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, and the following year, his second novel, the controversial, Giovanni’s Room.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Francesca Wade chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while researching and crafting Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. ‘Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me’, wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called Gertrude Stein a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding – and contested – writers of the 20th century.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Lance Richardson, the Australian journalist and author of two acclaimed biographies, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while researching and crafting True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen. The celebrated author of The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen was co-founder of the Paris Review and a towering figure of 20th-century American literature.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Frances Wilson, one of Britain’s most acclaimed biographers and literary critics, chats with me about Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark.