A lovely article in North Shore Living Magazine about me winning the Faber Writing Academy Writing True Stories scholarship to help me fine-tune my biography of Emeritus Professor Michael Cousins AO, one of the world’s leading pain medicine researchers, clinicians, educators and advocates. The book is titled, Breaking the pain barrier: The extraordinary life of Dr Michael J. Cousins.
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 […]
