Nigel Stark examines the ethical challenges in researching and composing biography, illustrated by his experiences in writing a life of Russell Braddon (Proud Australian Boy: a biography of Russell Braddon, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011) and his recent book on novelist and traveller Anthony Trollope’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in the 1870s. (The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope’s Australian Odyssey, Lansdown, 2014.)