From Ocean to Mountain with Vicki Hastrich, Anthony Sharwood and Caroline Baum

Two of the best new Australian biographers talk about how they bring to life remarkable lives that deserve another look. Vicki Hastrich celebrates deep sea fishing champion and millionaire author Zane Grey, who spent time fishing for marlin on the South Coast of NSW, while Anthony Sharwood travels in the footsteps of his hero, Enlightenment freedom fighter Tadeusz Kosciuszko, from Poland to France, from the US to our own high country, to ask how his name got given to our tallest peak. They are in conversation with Caroline Baum, host of Life Sentences, a podcast about contemporary biography.

About the AuthorsVicki Hastrich is a biographer and author of The Last Days of Zane Grey, the novels Swimming with the Jellyfish and The Great Arch, and the memoir Night Fishing.Anthony Sharwood is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and author of From Snow to Ash, The Brumby Wars, and Kosciuszko.

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True Story is a festival of ideas celebrating the best creative non-fiction writing in Australia today. Bringing writers and readers together in Coledale, the festival showcases trusted voices, gripping yarns, and local perspectives that illuminate our world.

Credits

Recorded by Kingsley Reeve

Curated by Caroline Baum, Sarah Nicholson (South Coast Writers Centre) & Genevieve Swart

With thanks to The Illawarra Flame

The South Coast Writers Centre acknowledges the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work, and we offer our respect to elders past, present and emerging.