Ross McMullin
Ross McMullin is an award-winning historian, biographer and storyteller.
His latest book, Life So Full of Promise, has been awarded The Age Book of the Year Award. It’s his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, following Farewell Dear People, which was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the National Cultural Award.
Ross’s previous books include his acclaimed biography of Australia’s most famous fighting general, Pompey Elliott, which also won multiple awards, and he assembled Pompey’s extraordinary letters and diaries in a separate book, Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words. He has also written political histories and a biography of a remarkably talented and versatile artist–writer, Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius, as well as numerous chapters in multi-authored books and more than a hundred articles in a host of publications.
