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cover of vol 17 of the ADBThe Australian Dictionary of Biography is Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. In it you will find concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of over 11,500 significant and representative persons in Australian history. The subjects come from all walks of life - from prime ministers, governor-generals and premiers, generals and bishops, artists, actors and authors, engineers and schoolteachers, to prostitutes, thieves and murderers - providing a cross-section of Australian society.

The ADB is produced by the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University and is available both as a hardcopy publication and online.

 

 

 

UPDATES

The March-May 2009 issue of Biography Footnotes: the quarterly newsletter of the National Centre of Biography is now available on the NCB website. It includes many articles about the ADB.