Ross McMullin is an award-winning historian, biographer, and storyteller. His books include two multi-biographies: Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s lost generation, which won national awards, including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and its sequel, Life So Full of Promise, which won The Age Book of the Year Award. His biographies include Pompey Elliott, which also won multiple awards, and Will Dyson: Australia’s radical genius. He assembled Elliott’s extraordinary letters in Pompey Elliott at War: In his own words, and his political histories comprise The Light on the Hill and So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the world’s first national labour government.