Biographers in Conversation

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Erin Vincent chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Fourteen Ways of Looking.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• In Fourteen Ways of Looking, Erin Vincent revisits the tragic year when both her paren...

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Martin Thomas chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• Martin Thomas’s research began in the ABC’s sound ar...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Judith Mackrell, one of Britain’s most eminent biographers, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• Artists, Sibl...

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Sylvia Martin chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Double Act: Eirene Mort and Nora Kate Weston.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• While Eirene Mort was a designer, black & white illustrator, watercolourist, etcher, tapestry worker and potter, N...

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Cynthia Banham chats with Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Mother Shadow: A Meditation on Maternal Inheritance.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• A hybrid of biographical reimagining, lyrical memoir and transnational family history, Mother Shadow is po...

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Sheryle Bagwell chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Letter from Provence: Two Women, Two Centuries and a Village House in France.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• Sheryle Bagwell explains how the chance discovery of a dust-covered volume of Madame de Sévig...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Nigel Hamilton chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• Lincoln vs. Davis is the first dual biography to examine how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis fought each other as pr...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Zachary Leader chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• Richard Ellmann’s biography of the novelist James Joyce is considered the greatest literary bio...

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Micaela Sahhar chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• The death of Micaela Sahhar’s grandmother’s last surviving si...

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Professor Karen Fang chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• Karen Fang explains why only a full-length biography could do justice to Tyrus Wong’s 106-year life that e...

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning author Dr Debra Adelaide chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting When I Am Sixty-Four.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• When I Am Sixty-Four is a tender, poignant story based on Debra Adelaide’s lifelon...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Troy Bramston chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New. This is the first full biography of Gough Whitlam, a former Australian Prime Minister, since his death in 2014.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• The biography&rs...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ian Hembrow chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees is the first full-length English biography of Anders Celsius, a modest Swed...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Hester Kaplan chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• The catalyst for crafting Twice Born was the death of Hester’s father, the biographer Justin K...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Helen Pitt chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about The House: The dramatic story of the Sydney Opera House and the people who made it and Luna Park: The extraordinary story of the showmen, shysters and schemers who built Sydney’s famous fun park.

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In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Paul Kildea chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Chopin’s Piano: A Journey through Romanticism.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• Paul Kildea’s inspiration for crafting Chopin’s Piano. A Journey through Romanticism.
• The significa...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Sara Fitzgerald chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• How the secret letters T.S. Eliot wrote to Emily Hale revealed an intimate 27-year correspondence (19...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Theodore Ell chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Lebanon Days:  Memories of an ancient land through economic meltdown, a revolution of hope and surviving the 2020 Beirut explosion. 

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• Theodore Ell reveals how the b...

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Deborah FitzGerald chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: 

• Why Dorothea Mackellar crafted her iconic poem: ‘I Love a Sunburnt Country’.
• ...