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Historians’ autobiographies and biographies

David Carment

History Australia, 2018

Clio's Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians, edited by Doug Munro and John G.

Reid, Canberra, ANU Press, 2017, xiv þ315 pp., $A50 (print), ISBN9781760461430 (print), 9781760461447 (online), Publisher's website: https:// press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/clio'slives Clio's Lives is a most welcome and highly readable addition to scholarly literature on autobiography and biography.

Inspired by 'the increasing though still-limited body of scholarship connecting the writing of history directly with the lives of those who write it' (1), it is based on a workshop held in Canberra during 2015. Part of the ANU Lives Series in Biography, the book brings together contributions from 13 highly regarded authors.

Eleven of them are associated with Australian universities and two with Cana