gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When a famous life has been forgotten ... gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/when-a-fam...gabriellakellydavies.substack.comWhen a famous life has been forgotten ...Restoring Dr Koop to public memory 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026To resolve contradictions? To preserve contradictions? That’s the question. gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/to-resolve... @nigelcameron.bsky.socialgabriellakellydavies.substack.comTo resolve contradictions? To preserve contradictions? That’s the question.When a biographical subject resists neat categorisation. 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can fiction sometimes tell a deeper truth than memoir? gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/can-fictio... @harpercollins.bsky.social 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026What happens when biography looks at two lives at once? gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/what-happe...gabriellakellydavies.substack.comWhat happens when biography looks at two lives at once?Jeffrey Meyers will reveal all next Friday. Stay tuned! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Adam Plunkett on Robert Frost: Beloved poet or alleged ‘monster’? gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/adam-plunk...gabriellakellydavies.substack.comAdam Plunkett on Robert Frost: Beloved poet or alleged ‘monster’?What do you do when the truth keeps shifting shape? 001
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026How do you write biography when your subjects were nearly erased from history? gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/how-do-you... 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Public Things Newsletter publicthings.substack.com?r=1r7dh2&utm... Matthew Lamb's article about literary biography is deeply reflective about the art and craft of writing literary biography. I encourage you to read it.publicthings.substack.comPublic Things Newsletter | Matthew Lamb | SubstackBroad discussions about ideas and intellectual history regarding literary culture and democracy - these public things. Click to read Public Things Newsletter, by Matthew Lamb, a Substack publication w... 020
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/gather-up-...gabriellakellydavies.substack.comGather Up Your World in One Long BreathBiographers in Conversation interview: S. Shakthidharan (Shakthi) 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026'Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath' gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/gather-up-...gabriellakellydavies.substack.com'Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath'Biographers in Conversation interview with S. Shakthidharan, coming soon! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The Biographer as Detective gabriellakellydavies.substack.com/p/the-biogra...gabriellakellydavies.substack.comThe Biographer as DetectiveSophia Lambton on Writing Beyond the Myth. 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026What does grief sound like when it’s broken into pieces? open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... #biographersinconversation #memoir #fragmentedwriting #griefandwriting #hybridmemoir #FourteenWaysOfLooking #erinvincent #proseform #lifewritingopen.substack.comWhat does grief sound like when it’s broken into pieces?Erin Vincent explores this question in the next episode of Biographers in Conversation. It drops on Friday, so stay tuned! 010
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026How do you write 'with' Arnhem Land communities rather than 'about' them? open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @allenandunwin.bsky.socialopen.substack.comHow do you write 'with' Arnhem Land communities rather than 'about' them?That's the cultural issue historian Martin Thomas confronts head-on in 'Clever Men' 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Writing biography across a cultural divide open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @allenandunwin.bsky.social 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Two extraordinary women. 60 years of making beautiful objects together. And history remembered only one of them. open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.comTwo extraordinary women. 60 years of making beautiful objects together. And history remembered only one of them.Coming soon! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Season 5 of Biographers in Conversation has dropped! open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.comSeason 5 of Biographers in Conversation has dropped!It begins with a woman who refused to be named 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Season 5 of Biographers in Conversation drops this Friday! open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.comSeason 5 of Biographers in Conversation drops this Friday!A laboratory of 21st‑century biographical writing. 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Season 5 of Biographers in Conversation drops on 3 July! open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Season 4 Finale: a dusty book found in an attic, a dead mother’s dream and the letters that changed everything. open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @allenandunwin.bsky.socialopen.substack.comSeason 4 Finale: a dusty book found in an attic, a dead mother’s dream and the letters that changed everything.Sheryle Bagwell reveals that this serendipitous discovery was the catalyst for crafting 'Letter from Provence: Two Women, Two Centuries, and a Village House in France'. 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026'The Biographer as Detective, Psychologist and Truth-Teller' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @hachetteus.bsky.social 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026'Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker'Biographers in Conversation interview with eminent biographer Zachary Leader is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026'Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @urlibrary.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker'Biographers in Conversation interview with eminent biographer, Zachary Leader. Coming soon! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family'Biographers in Conversation interview with Australian-Palestinian author and educator, Dr Micaela Sahhar, is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @newsouthpublishing.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family'Biographers in Conversation interview with Australian-Palestinian author and educator, Dr Micaela Sahhar. Coming soon! 011
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Congratulations Francesca Wade! open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @francescawade.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.socialopen.substack.comCongratulations Francesca Wade!'Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife' receives 2026 Plutarch Award for Best Biography 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026'Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @rutgersupress.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong'Biographers in Conversation interview with Karen Fang is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026'Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... #AsianAmericanHistory #AAPIHeritageMonth #TyrusWong #Disney #AsianAmericanArt #HiddenHistories #RepresentationMatters #ImmigrantStories #AmplifyAAPI @rutgersupress.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong'Biographers in Conversation interview with Karen Fang. Coming soon! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026'When I Am Sixty-Four' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'When I Am Sixty-Four'Biographers in Conversation interview with award-winning novelist Debra Adelaide. Stay tuned! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026'Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @harpercollins.bsky.social @whitlaminstitute.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New'Biographers in Conversation interview with Troy Bramston is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026'Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @harpercollins.bsky.social @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New'Biographers in Conversation interview with political biographer Troy Bramston. Coming soon! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026'Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees'Biographers in Conversation interview with Ian Hembrow is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Congratulations, Lance Richardson open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @lancerichardson.bsky.social @pulitzerprizes.bsky.socialopen.substack.comCongratulations Lance RichardsonPulitzer Prize Finalist: 'True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen' 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026'Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees'Biographers in Conversation interview with Ian Hembrow. Stay tuned! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026'Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography'Biographers in Conversation interview with award-winning author Hester Kaplan is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026'Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography'Biographers in Conversation interview with award-winning author Hester Kaplan. Stay Tuned! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 23/04/2026'The House' and 'Luna Park' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @helenpitt.bsky.social @allenandunwin.bsky.social @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'The House' and 'Luna Park'Biographers in Conversation interview with award-winning author, Helen Pitt 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 16/04/2026'Chopin’s Piano: A Journey through Romanticism' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @musicaviva.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026'Chopin’s Piano: A Journey through Romanticism' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Chopin’s Piano: A Journey through Romanticism'Biographers in Conversation interview with celebrated conductor, musicologist and author, Paul Kildea. Stay tuned! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026'The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime'Biographers in Conversation: An interview with Sara Fitzgerald to celebrate Poetry Month 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Congratulations Nicholas Boggs! open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @nmacmillan.bsky.socialopen.substack.comCongratulations Nicholas Boggs!Baldwin: A Love Story receives prestigious awards 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026'This Country Is My Mind' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.com'This Country Is My Mind'Biographers in Conversation: An interview with the poet Theodore Ell. 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026'Lebanon Days: Memories of an Ancient Land through Economic Meltdown, a Revolution of Hope and Surviving the 2020 Beirut Explosion' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @allenandunwin.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Lebanon Days: Memories of an Ancient Land through Economic Meltdown, a Revolution of Hope and Surviving the 2020 Beirut Explosion'Biographers in Conversation: An interview with Theodore Ell is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026'Lebanon Days: Memories of an ancient land through economic meltdown, a revolution of hope and surviving the 2020 Beirut explosion' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @allenandunwin.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Lebanon Days: Memories of an ancient land through economic meltdown, a revolution of hope and surviving the 2020 Beirut explosion'Theodore Ell Biographers in Conversation interview coming soon! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Congratulations Ashleigh Wilson open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...open.substack.comCongratulations Ashleigh WilsonHighly Commended Award: Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for a biography of Barry Humphries 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026'Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @simonschusteranz.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar'Biographers in Conversation interview with Deborah FitzGerald is live! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026'Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @simonschusteranz.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar'Biographers in Conversation interview with Deborah FitzGerald coming soon! 000
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Nicholas Boggs longlisted for the prestigious Plutarch Award for 'Baldwin: A Love Story' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @panmacmillan.bsky.socialopen.substack.comNicholas Boggs longlisted for the prestigious Plutarch Award for 'Baldwin: A Love Story'A lucid, propulsive, compassionate and deeply researched portrait of James Baldwin 011
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Francesca Wade longlisted for the prestigious Plutarch Award for 'Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @francescawade.bsky.socialopen.substack.comFrancesca Wade longlisted for the prestigious Plutarch Award for 'Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife''A bold, innovative and deeply human portrait' 011
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026'Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son George' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @lucysussex.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son George'Biographers in Conversation interview with Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown is live!! 021
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 16/03/2026'Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer and Her Criminal Son George' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @lucysussex.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer and Her Criminal Son George'Biographers in Conversation interview with Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown. Coming soon! 002
gabriellakd.bsky.social @gabriellakd.bsky.social · 08/03/2026'The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @groveatlantic.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.socialopen.substack.com'The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science'Biographers in Conversation interview with Dava Sobel. Coming soon! 000
