
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.
Brenda has degrees from the University
of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University.
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.