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Cathy Perkins: The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
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.
Read MoreCarl Rollyson: The Life of William Faulkner
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.
Read MoreSarah George. GAMU: The Dreamtime Stories, Life and Feelings of Big Bill Neidjie
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Sarah George chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing GAMU: The Dreamtime Stories, Life and Feelings of Big Bill Neidjie. Known as Kakadu Man
Read MoreAnn-Marie Priest: My Tongue Is My Own
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ann-Marie Priest chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing her award-winning biography My Tongue Is My Own, the first biography of Gwen Harwood, one of Australia’s most distinctive poets. My Tongue Is My Own follows Harwood from her childhood in 1920s Brisbane, to her final years in Hobart in the 1990s.
Read MoreMark McKenna: An Eye for Eternity. The Life of Manning Clark
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the historian Mark McKenna chats with Gabriella about the choices he made while writing An Eye for Eternity. The Life of Manning Clark, the biography of Australia’s legendary historian, Manning Clark.
Read MoreNancy Hurrell: The Egan Irish Harps
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Nancy Hurrell, an acclaimed harpist and harp historian, chats with Gabriella about her book The Egan Irish Harps: Tradition, Patrons and Players.
Read MoreBrett Mason: Wizards of Oz
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation,Brett Mason chats with Gabriella about the choices he made while writing Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world.
Read MoreJoel Stephen Birnie: My People’s Songs: How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joel Stephen Birnie chats with Gabriella about My People’s Songs: How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania, his historical biography of Tarenootairer
Read MoreNadia Wheatley: The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Nadia Wheatley chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift, the biography of Charmian Clift, one of Australia’s most charismatic writers whose books were often decades ahead of their time.
Read MoreKenneth Miller: Mapping the Darkness. The Visionary Scientists who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep (Part 2)
In this second of two episodes, Kenneth Miller continues his conversation with Gabriella about the choices he made while writing Mapping the Darkness. As we learned in the first episode, a century ago, sleep was widely considered a state of nothingness and a wasteful habit that we could learn to overcome. Thanks to the four scientists Kenneth introduced us to in episode one, we now know the truth: that sleep is an incredibly complex phenomenon, central to our physical, emotional, and cognitive health.
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