Biographers in Conversation

Biographers in Conversation is a new podcast in which award-winning Sydney biographer Gabriella Kelly-Davies chats with biographers across the world about the multiplicity of choices they make while researching, writing and publishing life stories. In each episode of Biographers in Conversation, Gabriella explores elements of narrative strategy such as structure, use of fiction techniques, facts and truth, beginnings and endings and to what extent the writer interpreted the evidence rather than providing clues and leaving it to readers to do the interpreting themselves. She also asks writers how they researched their books; how they balanced a subject’s public, personal and inner lives; and ethical issues such as privacy and revealing secrets or sensitive information. It is these choices that enable you as a reader to 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. Stay tuned!