Volume 17 of the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' series, is the first of
two to deal with the period 1891-1990, recording the lives of Australians whom
many of us remember from the recent past. This volume covers those with surnames
from A-K.
Francis Forde, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Alexnader Downer,
Albert Hawker, Dame Elizabeth Couchman, Dame Zara Holt, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir
Athur Coles, Sir Warwick Fairfax, Robert Holmes-a-Court, Sir Philip Baxter, Sir
Macfarlane Burnet, Dame Kate Campbell, Sir Leonard Huxley, Sir Robert and Dame
margaret Blackwood, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, William Macmahon Ball, Sir
John Crawford, Marjories Barnard, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark, Albert Facey,
Xavier Herbert, Sir Russell Drysdale, Noel Counihan, Donald Friend, Sir Roy
Grounds, Sir Bernard Heinze, John Antill, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Sir Robert
Helpman, Kathleen Gorham, Cardinal James Knox, Archbishop Felix Arnott,
Vice-Admiral Sir John Collins, Sir Hughie Edwards VD, Air Vice Marshal Donald
Bennett, Sir Edmund and Same Mary Herring, Lady (Maie) Casey, Pearl Gibbs, Revel
Cooper and Glady Elphick: from a prim minister and premiers to professors,
playwrights, poets, pastoralists, public servants and a Polish-born spy ...
there are 670 lives included, written by 545 authors in this volume.
Maintaining the ADB's tradition of scholarship, Volume 17 presents a
colourful mosaic of twentieth-century Australia. The host of lives gives a
picture of our society, provides insights into the experiences of our people,
and illuminates large themes in our recent history such as immigration,
accelerating urbanisation and suburbanisation, war (World War II, Korea, Malaya
and Vietnam), material progress, increasing politics, conflict and harmony, and
the loss of isolation. It also reveals something of the greatness and the
littleness of which human beings are capable.
Please note, the names included in this volume are not included on the free Australian Dictionary of Biography website.
Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Editorial Board
Section Editors
Staff
Working Parties
The ADBs Second General Editor
The ADB's Fourth General Editor
Authors
A Note on Some Procedures
Corrigenda
References
Abbreviations Used in Bibliographies
Australian Dictionary of Biography: A-K
