Eleanor Hogan is a literary non-fiction writer with a professional background in Indigenous policy research. Her writing, including her previous book, Alice Springs, published by NewSouth in 2012, draws strongly on her experience working and living in central Australia since 2000. She was winner of the Peter Blazey Fellowship 2017 and the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2019 for biographical writing.
'Into the Loneliness presents a relationship between two remarkable
but flawed women, one with profound, ongoing consequences for
Indigenous people. It's a book about sexism, about writing, and the
nature of friendship. It's a study of white Australian attitudes
that persist to this day. And it's an astonishing true story that
leaps off the page.' --Jeff Sparrow
'Into the Loneliness is a fascinating biographical study of two
significant and intriguing women who were in many ways ahead of
their time, yet reflective of it in their artistic endeavours.
Using a sophisticated structure and interconnected narratives, this
impressive biography reconceptualises the shifting, complex,
relationships between Daisy Bates, Ernestine Hill and Indigenous
Australians.' --Jenny Hocking
'A meticulous unveiling of the enigmatic Daisy Bates and her
writing companion Ernestine Hill. Tracking her subjects across the
Nullabor, Hogan strips away layer after layer of dissimulation as
she unpicks their writing partnership.' --Bill Garner
'I responded to this book with every cell in my body, neuron in my
brain and beat of my heart. A stunning achievement of epic
storytelling, historical enquiry and elegant analysis. Eleanor
Hogan has resurrected Hill and Bates as Australian icons, women as
complex, compelling and deeply flawed as the nation itself.'
--Clare Wright
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