Brenda Niall is the author of five award-winning biographies.
From the archive
Who does she think she is?
Brenda Niall
30 July 2021
A survey of women’s portraiture suggests there are as many answers as artists
From the archive
Alliance of convenience
Brenda Niall
1 March 2021
Books | How Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill reinvented themselves in the Australian outback
Essays & reportage
Nine lives
Brenda Niall
23 June 2020
For one of Australia’s foremost biographers, the impulse to tell life stories has never gone away
From the archive
A small cedar box
Brenda Niall
3 November 2017
Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past
© 2025 Inside Story and contributors | ISSN 1837-0497