Over at “The Australian Legend”, Bill has an interesting interview with biographer Sarah Goldman, author of Caroline Chisholm: An Irresistible Force. I started out my biography in fear someone else would publish one on my subject before me; that actually happened to Goldman, and it was still okay, as she explains in answer to one of Bill’s questions.
Caroline Chisholm: An Irresistible Force by Sarah Goldman is the recently released biography of one of the most interesting and influential women in Australia’s early history. My review copy arrived with a letter suggesting Sarah would be happy to be interviewed, so I sent her some questions to which she has been kind enough to give extensive answers. I didn’t let on, but this is my first interview.
Nathan Hobby, a biographer in Perth 
I remember that something similar happened to Colm Toibin and David Lodge: they both wrote novels based on the life of Henry James and they both came out in the same year…
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Probably not what either of them hoped for. I have an article about the four competing biographers writing about Christina Stead in the late 1980s – two of them got there.
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Four! Gosh, you’d feel sick, wouldn’t you, when you found out…
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