Biographers' Ball | Ben Macintyre, Sushma Jansari, Katherine Rundell & Peter Moore with Clare Wright

Biographers' Ball | Ben Macintyre, Sushma Jansari, Katherine Rundell and Peter Moore in conversation with Clare Wright
How do you grasp another life and pin it to a page? What does it take to immerse yourself completely into someone else’s story, to comb through history and bring it alive? Biographers of luminaries and figures across time come together in a panel to discuss what it means to bring these personae to life, compellingly and authentically, and the challenges they face in doing so.
Ben Macintyre has worked as The Times correspondent in New York, Paris and Washing. He is the author of fourteen non-fiction history books including, Operation Mincemeat, A Spy Amongst Friends, SAS: Rogue Heroes and most recently, Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, all of which have been Sunday Times bestsellers.
Sushma Jansari is Tabor Foundation Curator South Asia at the British Museum. Her book Chandragupta Maurya: the creation of a national hero in India has recently been published. Currently, she is preparing a major exhibition about art, religion and power in ancient South Asia (opening May 2025).
Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. She is the author of Super-Infinite, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure, both Sunday Times bestsellers. Her award-winning books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and sold over two million copies worldwide. She has written for, among others, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books and the New York Times, about books, the natural world and night climbing.
Peter Moore is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Weather Experiment and Endeavour. He teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford. His latest book, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream, was published in 2023.
Clare Wright OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator who has worked in politics, academia and the media. Clare is currently Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. She is the author of four works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom. Clare has written and presented history documentaries for ABC TV and hosts the ABC Radio National history series, Shooting the Past, and co-hosts the La Trobe University podcast Archive Fever. In 2020, Clare was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list for “services to literature and to historical research”. She is a Member of the National Museum of Australia Council. Wright’s visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival is supported by the Australian High Commission in India.
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