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

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.