Brenda Niall

Brenda Niall is one of Australia’s foremost biographers. She is the author of five award-winning biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family. In 2016 she won the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award for Mannix. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for ‘services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic’. She frequently reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review.

Works By Brenda Niall

No Bouquets, No Touching Up: Myself When Young
Some memoirs are written in tranquil mood and quiet spaces. Not this one. When Henry Handel Richardson sat down at her desk in September 1942 to contemplate her younger self, the sound of German bombing raids made writing almost impossible. Yet sh...
31 July. 2019

Works Featuring Brenda Niall

Bright and Fiery Troupers
Long before the Stella Prize, there was Stella herself, but also Ada, various Marys, Catherines and Elizabeths, Tasma, Rosa and so on.
8 June. 2020
The Greatest Churchman: Mannix by Brenda Niall
Daniel Mannix is the greatest churchman in Australian history, but he was far too much of a turbulent priest for the College of Cardinals. This was the man who opposed Billy Hughes’ referendum on conscription and won. This is the man who split the...
31 July. 2015

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Brenda Niall

Works By Brenda Niall

No Bouquets, No Touching Up: Myself When Young

Works Featuring Brenda Niall

Bright and Fiery Troupers

The Greatest Churchman: Mannix by Brenda Niall