Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson (Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, 2020). My Accidental Career (Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, 2022) Awards and nominations 2001: awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of Australian literature 2002: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Book Award for The Boyds: A Family Biography 2004: appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to Australian literature as an academic, biographer and literary critic 2016: winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Mannix 2020: shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards, Nonfiction Book Award for Friends and Rivals 2020: shortlisted, Nib Literary Award for Friends and Rivals References 1930 births Australian journalists Australian biographers Living people Australian women writers Officers of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal ALS Gold Medal winners University of Melbourne alumni Women biographers Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities People educated at Genazzano FCJ College Monash University faculty People from Camberwell, Victoria Writers from Melbourne