Tim Rowse
Workshop
Professor Tim Rowse's biography of Nugget Coombs (2002) has been described as a 'fine, intellectual biography'. As he notes in his acknowledgements, Tim set out to write about the public life, 'Coombs' deposited papers did not include items that reveal what he considered to be his private life…
Life of Information
Symposium
A one-day symposium on the design and use of online dictionaries, encyclopedias and collections Presented by the National Centre of Biography, Australian National UniversityConvenor: Paul Arthur, Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of…
Judith Brett
Workshop
Professor Judith Brett is well-known for her studies of prominent politicians, including Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992) which won the 1993 Ernest Scott Prize, the 1993 Victorian Premier's Prize for Australian Studies and shared the 1993 New South Wales Premier's Prize for non-fiction…
Willa McDonald
Workshop
A senior lecturer at Macquarie University, Willa McDonald’s research interests are creative non-fiction/literary journalism, biography and memoir, journalism, ethics, travel writing, place and nature writing, race and the media. In 2007 she co-edited the anthology Telling Stories in Journalism…
Brenda Niall
Workshop
Brenda Niall has written a number of biographies, including Seven Little Billabongs: The World of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce (1979), Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer (1994), The Boyds: A Family Biography (2002) and the biography of a…
Susan Varga
Workshop
Susan Varga's biography of her mother, Heddy and Me (1994), won the Christina Stead Award in 1994. Her latest novel, Headlong: A Novel (2009), has strong autobiographical/biographical elements. Susan will discuss why she chose the two different approaches to her books even though they cover related…
Kate Grenville
Workshop
One of Australia’s best-known authors, Kate Grenville is completing the third novel in a trilogy based on real people in colonial New South Wales. The other novels in the trilogy are The Secret River (2005) and The Lieutenant: A Novel (2009). Kate researches her novels exhaustively.