Congratulations to Karen Fox for the publication of her edited work True Biographies of Nations? The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography (ANU Press, 2019). This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism.