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Ben Mckelvey

Ben Mckelvey is a best-selling biographer and modern historian. His latest book is the memoir A Scar is Also Skin.

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Ben Mckelvey is an author, journalist and editor. Ben’s books have won the Australian Independent Book Award for non-fiction, an Australian Book Industry Award and the Nib Military History Prize and they have been shortlisted in the Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Les Carlyon Literary Prize. Ben has been the editor of Mr Jones, Sports&Style and Juice magazines and worked at the Sydney Morning Herald as a Senior Feature Writer. As a freelance writer, Ben has been embedded with the ADF in East Timor and Iraq, and has worked independently in Iran, Syria and Afghanistan.

Ben Mckelvey

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