Mark Derby

Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian whose work has also been published in Britain, Spain and the United States. His previous publications include Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Dougal Jolly (Massey University ress, co-published with University of Nebraska Press, 2024), Rock College: An unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison (Massey University Press, 2020), Ragnar Redbeard: The Antipodean origins of radical fabulist Arthur Desmond (Steele Roberts, 2017), Petals and Bullets: Dorothy Morris: New Zealand nurse in the Spanish Civil War (Sussex Academic Press/Potton & Burton, 2015), White-collar Radical: Dan Long and the rise of the white-collar unions (Craig Potton Publishing, 2013), The Prophet and the Policeman: The story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen (Craig Potton Publishing, 2009), Kiwi Compañeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War (Canterbury University Press, 2009; Spanish-language edition published 2011 in association with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain). He has been jailed but never imprisoned, and lives on Wellington’s south coast with three generations of his family.