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Nathan Hobby "The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard"

Nathan Hobby "The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard"

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Nathan Hobby shares his choices while crafting The Red Witch; A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard. Here’s what you’ll discover:

  • Katharine Susannah Prichard’s significance as a trailblazing Australian novelist and political figure who co-founded the Australian Communist Party
  • How Pritchard’s ground-breaking novels reflected her social ideals
  • Nathan’s extensive research process, from scouring archives to retracing Prichard’s footsteps
  • The book’s structure and narrative style
  • The difficulties of dealing with unreliable or biased source material
  • The challenging decisions involved in narrowing the biographical scope given the trove of source material
  • How Nathan used novelistic techniques to enliven the biography
  • The role of a biographer.
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