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.