The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins book launch
Book launch
The National Centre of Biography invites you to celebrate the launch of The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era edited by Samuel Furphy. The book is being launched by the Chancellor of the ANU Professor the Hon Gareth…
Helen Trinca: Madeleine
Workshop
Helen Trinca, whose biography of Ted St John's daughter, Madeleine, was the co-winner of the Prime Minister's non-fiction award last December, will discuss the ethics of writing the lives of others.
Angela Woollacott: Don Dunstan
Workshop
Angela Woollacott will discuss her biography of Don Dunstan. She will also ponder issues for a biographer of using various genres of the subject’s ‘autobiographies’.
Philip Ayres: Owen Dixon
Workshop
Philip Ayres will discuss writing biography: the generation of forward momentum, the question of fate vs will, and the concept of essence in regard to character.
Andrew Tink: Australia 1901–2001
Workshop
Andrew Tink discusses his latest book, Australia 1901–2001: a narrative history (2014), a story driven by people: prime ministers, soldiers, shopkeepers, singers, footballers and farmers, be they men or women, Australian-born, immigrant or Aboriginal.
Alison Alexander: Jane Franklin
Workshop
Alison Alexander discusses her biography The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian lady adventurer (Allen & Unwin 2013) which won the National Biography Award in 2014.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, My Father's Daughter
Workshop
Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses her My Father’s Daughter (2010), a memoir of her father, the radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick, and her own childhood in Melbourne in the 1940s and ‘50s and A Spy in the Archives (2013) which told of her experiences as a young historian researching her dissertation in…