A conversation about all things biography

To kick off Season One on 3 April 2024, I’ll chat with Peter FitzSimons about the choices he made while writing an epic biography of Sydney Opera House, one of the world’s most iconic buildings. Peter FitzSimons Here’s Peter talking about a vital aspect of his biography and some of the literary devices he employed […]

I’m a biographer endlessly fascinated by the multiplicity of choices biographers make when crafting a life story. When you read a biography, do you feel like you’re in the story living the biographical subject’s life, feeling what they’re feeling and seeing what they’re seeing? To stimulate your imagination this way, biographers make hundreds of decisions about how they research and write their […]

Two years since Breaking through the pain barrier launched It’s National Pain Week and today, we commemorate the second anniversary of the inspiring biography, Breaking Through the Pain Barrier: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael J. Cousins, launched by the peak advocacy body, Painaustralia, which Michael Cousins launched in 2010. Dr Michael Cousins is a trailblazer […]