# Joanne Drayton - The Lives of Others

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Podcast: [The Marlborough Book Festival](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437)
Published: 2024-12-17T22:46:57+00:00
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## Resource

Joanne Drayton is an art historian, biographer and nonfiction writer. Her personal memoir The Queen’s Wife was published in January this year. Her book Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love won the non-fiction award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2019. The Search for Anne Perry was a top-10 non-fiction on the New York Times bestseller list. Joanne discusses the art of biography writing and shares stories about researching her acclaimed biographies of Ngaio Marsh, Frances Hodgkins, Anne Perry, Hudson and Halls, Rhona Hazard and Edith Collier. How does one unlock the secrets of other people’s lives and turn them into such great reads? Joanne was in conversation with Nikki Macdonald at the 2023 Marlborough Book Festival.

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