David Nichols has worked as a magazine editor and journalist in Sydney and Melbourne. His writing appeared for a considerable period in the well-regarded magazine Puncture. The Go-Betweens was his first book, published in 1997 by Allen and Unwin Australia and then reissued in an updated form by Verse Chorus Press in 2003. He has also published a history of the Kingsford Legal Centre, From Roundabout to Roundhouse and has co-edited Deeper Leads, a collection on Victorian goldfields history, with Keir Reeves. He is co-editor, with Hannah Lewi, of Community: Building Modern Australia (UNSW Press, 2010) and is the author of an as-yet-untitled history of Australian popular music since 1960, to be published by Verse Chorus Press in 2012. He is a contributor to 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and the Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture. He is lecturer in urban planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He is married with four pets.