An announcement I missed a week or so back concerns the 2007 National Biography Award Shortlist. The award is administered and presented by the State Library of New South Wales. The shortlisted works are:
Mr Stuart's Track by John Bailey
No Time for Dances by Gillian Bouras
The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science by Paul Doherty
Arthur Tange by Peter Edwards
East of Time by Jacob B Rosenberg
Margaret Olley: Far from a Still Life by Meg Stewart
In addition the judges highly commended the following works:
Bernard Shaw: A Life by A.M. Gibbs
Will Dyson, Australia's Radical Genius by Ross McMullin
Hoi Polloi by Craig Sherborne
The winner of the $20,000 award will be announced on Tuesday 27th March.
