Biography

Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 17, 1981–1990, A–K edited by Diane Langmore

by Geoffrey Blainey •

February 2008, no. 298

MUP, $100 hb, 677 pp

Biography

Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 17, 1981–1990, A–K edited by Diane Langmore

by Geoffrey Blainey •

February 2008, no. 298

This is the latest volume of a reference work which should sit on the shelves of every municipal library. It assesses the lives of people, mostly prominent, who died in the years 1981–90. It lists them in alphabetical order; a further volume will be needed to embrace the 600 or 700 people whose surnames began with the letters L to Z.

Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Blainey, a practising historian for some sixty years, has written on Australian and world history. Long attracted to museums, he was deputy chairman of the Whitlam government's Enquiry into Museums and National Collections in 1974–75. Later, he served on the board of the Australian War Memorial for seven years. His book, The Causes of War (1973, 1988), is debated in military academies and in US universities.