Dr Greg de Moore "Tom Wills: The Insubordinate Life of an Australian Sporting Legend"
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Dr Greg de Moore "Tom Wills: The Insubordinate Life of an Australian Sporting Legend"
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About this listen
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Greg de Moore chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Tom Wills: The Insubordinate Life of an Australian Sporting Legend.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
- How Greg de Moore first stumbled upon Tom Wills’ forgotten story
- Why Greg felt compelled to rescue Tom Will’s legendary tale from obscurity.
- Wills’s remarkable life journey growing up among Aboriginal friends in the bush, captaining cricket at England’s elite Rugby School then returning to Australia to become a cricket star and co-inventor of Australian Rules.
- Greg’s narrative choices to bring Wills’ world alive.
- Why Greg framed Wills as ‘insubordinate’.
- How Greg portrayed Wills’s rebellious streak.
- How Greg approached writing about Wills’ dramatic downfall.
- Why sharing Tom Wills’s story still matters.
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