Ann Curthoys

Ann Curthoys is a historian who writes about Australian history, especially Indigenous history, and historical writing. Her books include Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers (2002); with John Docker, Is History Fiction? (2005, 2010); with Jessie Mitchell, Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 (2018); and, with Shino Konishi and Alexandra Ludewig, The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: a biographical history of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island (2022).