National Biography Prize shortlist shows a healthy and sceptical society

By Susan Wyndham
Updated July 10 2016 - 10:08am, first published July 4 2016 - 5:19pm
Magda Szubanski talks to George Megalogenis at 2016 Sydney Writers' Festival. Photo: Prudence Upton
Magda Szubanski talks to George Megalogenis at 2016 Sydney Writers' Festival. Photo: Prudence Upton

Biography is a growing genre in Australian writing, says historian Peter Cochrane, "not just as a search to understand lives but to get to the truth behind the spin, cover and public masks that confront us every day in politics.

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