Throughout my Master of Writing I chose to focus on creative nonfiction and biography, with a focus on research into the practice of biography, that is, learning how biographers do their work.
A number of articles on my website are pieces that I wrote as part of my Masters. They aren’t optimised for online search but I hope that others may find them useful. Below are a list of references for further reading.
ABC Editorial Policies, 2015, ‘Suicide and Self-Harm’, ABC Editorial Policies, 21 December.
ABC News, 2016, ‘WARNING: This video contains footage some viewers may find distressing’, ABC News, 20 October.
Adair, J, 2017, ‘Patrick McGorry says we need to hear suicide surivor’s stories’, ABC, 7 August.
Alexievich, S, 2017, The Unwomanly Face of War, Random House, New York
Allbrook, M and Nolan, M, 2018, ‘Australian historians and biography’, Australian Journal of Biography and History, No. 1.
Anon, 2012, Introduction. In: Boswell, J. The Life of Samuel Johnson, Start Publishing, USA
Applegate, D, 2017, ‘From academic historian to popular biographer: musings on the practical poetics of biography’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, ‘The biographical turn: lives in history’, Routledge, London.
Arthurs, S, 2018, ‘Why I changed how I write and think about suicide’, Center for Health Journalism, 11 October.
Ascough, G, 2006, Beginners Guide to Writing Your Life Story, BAS Publishing, Seaford.
Atkinson, R, 2004, ‘Life Story Interview’, in MS Lewis-Beck, A Bryman & T Futing Liao (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, SAGE, London
Atlas, J, 2014, ‘The End of Biography’, New York Times Book Review, 23 November.
Attorney-General’s Department, 2017, ‘Final Report: Identifying and Disclosing Child Sexual Abuse’, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Backscheider, P, 2013, Reflections on Biography, s.n., s.l.
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Brewer, R, 2020, ‘Lee Gutkind: The Godfather Behind Creative Nonfiction Takes on Memoir for the First Time’, Writer’s Digest, 29 September.
Brinkman, S, 2014, ‘Unstructured and Semi-structured Interviewing’, in P Leavy (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, Oxford University Press, New York.
Cline, S and Angier, C, 2010, The Arvon Book of Life Writing: Writing Biography, Autobiography and Memoir, Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
Cohen, L, 2013, ‘Michael Holroyd, The Art of Biography No. 3’, The Paris Review, Iss. 205.
Curthoys, A & McGrath, A 2009. How To Write History That People Want to Read, UNSW Press, Sydney.
Daniszewski, J, 2018, ‘How and when we report on suicides’, AP, 13 June.
De Bruijn, E, 2017, ‘Building bridges to early modern biography’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
De Haan, B, 2014, ‘The eclipse of biography in life writing’, in Renders, H and De Haan B (eds), 2014, Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from history, microhistory and life writing, Pictoright, Amsterdam.
De Haan, B, 2017, ‘Personalised history: on biofiction, source criticism and the critical value of biography’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
DeLouise, A and Harrington, R, 2013, ‘The art of video interviews’, LinkedIn, 19 November.
Dibell, A, 1988, ‘Beyond Plot’, Plot, Writers Digest Books.
Dirda, M, 2017, ‘An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit’, by Richard Holmes’, The Washington Post, 22 March.
Everymind, 2020, Mindframe, viewed 25 October 2020, <https://mindframe.org.au/>.
Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011, ‘Content Warning’, Find & Connect.
Fontana, A, 2004, ‘Unstructured Interview’, in MS Lewis-Beck, A Bryman & T Futing Liao (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, SAGE, London
Franklin, R, 2017, ‘Stacy Schiff, The Art of Biography No. 6’, The Paris Review, Iss. 223.
Gaffney, E & Howe, B, 1999, ‘David McCullough, The Art of Biography No. 2’, The Paris Review.
Garde, D, 2019, ‘Walter Isaacson is writing a book about CRISPR. He’s got company’, STAT News, 2 July.
Garvey, N, 2020, ‘By their words and their deeds, you shall know them: Writing live biographical subjects – a memoir’, Australian Journal of Biography and History, No. 3.
Golus, C, 2008, ‘Studs: A lifetime of listening’, University of Chicago Magazine.
Graff, G, 2019, The Only Plane in the Sky, Simon & Schuster, New York.
Gutkind, L, 2012, You can’t make this stuff up, Da Capo Press, Philadelphia.
Hamilton, N, 2017, ‘Biography as corrective’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
Hamilton, N, 2008, How to do biography, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts
Harding, J, 2006, ‘Questioning the Subject in Biographical Interviewing’, Sociological Research Online, Vol. 11, Iss. 3.
Hoffman, E, 2007, ‘Open-ended interviews, power, and emotional labor’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 36, Iss. 3, pp. 318–346.
Isaacson, W, 2011, Interviewed by Jonathon Gatehouse for Maclean’s, 14 November.
Isaacson, W, 2017, ‘Walter Isaacson: By the Book’, The New York Times, 2 November.
James N & Busher H, 2012, ‘Internet Interviewing’, J Gubrium, J Holstein, A Marvasti & K McKinney (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research, SAGE, California, pp. 177-191.
Janesick, V, 2014, ‘Oral History Interviewing: Issues and Possibilities’, in P Leavy (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, Oxford University Press, New York.
Jessee, E, 2019, ‘The Life History Interview’ in P Liamputtong (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences, Springer, Singapore, pp. 425-441.
Jessee, E, 2016, ‘The limits of oral history: ethics and methodology amid highly politicised research settings’ in R. Perks & A. Thomson (Eds.) The Oral History Reader, Routledge, New York, pp 674-688.
Johnson J & Rowlands T, 2012, ‘The Interpersonal Dynamics of In-Depth Interviewing’’, J Gubrium, J Holstein, A Marvasti & K McKinney (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research, SAGE, California, pp. 99-114.
Jones, K, 2009, Interviewed by Steven Poulter for Newsnight, 7 March.
Jones, M, 2010, ‘Michael Foot obituary’, The Guardian, 4 March.
Kahn, A and Onion, R, 2016, ‘Is history written about men, by men?’, Slate, January 6.
Kaiser, K, 2012, ‘Protecting Confidentiality’, J Gubrium, J Holstein, A Marvasti & K McKinney (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research, SAGE, California, pp. 457-465.
Kennedy, P, 2018, ‘The way the media reports on suicide is changing – and it’s about time’, ABC, 10 January.
Klein, C, 2017, ‘Biography as a concept of thought’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
LA Times, 2011, ‘“Steve Jobs: A Biography” release date is moved up to Nov. 21’, LA Times, August 15.
Lee, H, 2008, Body Parts, Pimlico, London.
Lee, H, 2009, Biography: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, New York
Lee, H, 2017, Interviewed by James Rivington for The British Academy, 12 June.
Leszkiewicz, A, 2020, ‘Hermoine Lee on how to write a life’, New Statesman, 21 October.
Lillrank, A, 2012, ‘Managing the Interviewer Self’, J Gubrium, J Holstein, A Marvasti & K McKinney (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research, SAGE, California, pp. 281-293.
Little, A, 2015, ‘Gender, history, and best sellers’, Historian, January 3.
Loriga, S, 2017, ‘The plurality of the past’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
Lowensohn, J, 2011, ‘Isaacson: Jobs was ‘eager to talk,’ exercise ‘no control’ (Q&A)’, CNet, 24 October.
Magnússon, SG, 2017, ‘The life is never over: biography as a microhistorical approach’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
Malcolm, J, 1995, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Vintage.
Maslin, J, 2011, ‘Making the iBio for Apple’s Genius’, The New York Times, October 21.
Mariano, N & Flores, A, 2019, ‘“Rotational brownouts” amid hot summer days’, Manila Standard, 11 April.
Marzano, M, 2012, ‘Informed Consent’, J Gubrium, J Holstein, A Marvasti & K McKinney (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research, SAGE, California, pp. 443-456.
Matloff, J, 2007, ‘ Scathing memory: journalism finally faces up to the psychic costs of war reporting’, Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 43, Iss. 4.
McCullough, D, 1992, Interviewed by Brian Lamb for National Cable Satellite Corporation, 19 July.
McCullough, D, 2016, Interviewed by Randy Fielder for Baylor University, 16 September.
McVicker, M, 2011, ‘Tips on writing a biography’, The Writer, 29 October.
Miller, P, 2017, Writing True Stories: The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Miller, R, 2000, Researching Life Stories and Family Histories, SAGE, London.
Newman, E, 2016, ‘“Trigger Warnings” in the Media’, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, 28 November.
Ndegeocello, M, 1999, ‘Aftershock: journalists and trauma’, The Quill, Vol. 87, No. 9.
Njini, F, 2020, ‘South Africa Continues Rolling Power Blackouts as Demand Rises’, Bloomberg, 22 July.
Oakley, A, 2010, ‘The social science of biographical life-writing: some methodological and ethical issues, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol. 13, No. 5.
Oliver, M, 2001, ‘Ian Hamilton, 63; British Poet, Critic Wrote Unauthorised Biography of J.D. Salinger’, Los Angeles Times, 31 December.
Park, L, 2010, A Long Walk to Water, University of Queensland Press, Australia.
Patrick, B, 2016, ‘Svetlana Alexievich’s History of Human Feelings’, Literary Hub, 22 June.
Penenberg, A, 2020, ‘NYU Journalism Handbook for Students’, NYU.
Possing, B, 2017, Understanding Biographies, University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense.
Renders, H, 2014, ‘Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into life writing’, Renders, H and De Haan B (eds), 2014, Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from history, microhistory and life writing, Pictoright, Amsterdam.
Renders, H, 2017 ‘Biography is not selfie’ in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, 2017 ‘The biographical turn: biography as critical method in humanities and in society’ in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
Renders, H and van Fassen, S, 2017, ‘Biographies as multipliers’, in Renders, H, De Hanne, B and Harmsma, J, (eds), 2017, The biographical turn: lives in history, Routledge, London.
Ritchie, D, 2015, Doing Oral History, Oxford University Press, New York.
Rollyson, C, 2016, Confessions of a Serial Biographer, McFarland & Company, Inc., North Carolina.
Ronayne, J, 2002, The Irish in Australia, Penguin Group, Camberwell.
Rosenthal, G, 2004, ‘Biographical Research’ in C. Seale, G. Gobo, J.F. Gubrium, & D. Silverman (Eds), Qualitative Research Practice, pp. 48-64, London.
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SAVE, 2020, ‘Best Practices and Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide’, Reporting on Suicide.
SAVE, 2020, ‘Online Media’, Reporting on Suicide.
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Talmage, J, 2012, ‘Listening to, and for, the research interview’, J Gubrium, J Holstein, A Marvasti & K McKinney (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research, SAGE, California, pp. 295-305.
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