For our “Process” special issue, regular contributor Angus Trumble, whose “Year in Retrospect” columns close each issue, explains (with his usual attention to detail) how he goes about researching and writing them.
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Angus Trumble: Chronologer
By Angus Trumble
Angus Trumble (1964–2022) was the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia. He was also a senior research fellow at the National Museum of Australia, as well as a curator at the Yale Center for British Art and the Art Gallery of South Australia. Trumble wrote several books, including A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books, 2004) and The Finger: A Handbook (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2010). In 2015, he was named a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2022, he was made an honorary fellow of his alma mater, Trinity College, Melbourne.