Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian whose work has also been published in Britain, Spain and the United States, and translated into French, Spanish and te reo Māori. His previous publications include Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly (Massey University Press, 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 (Liverpool University Press, 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 is an honorary member of the Ngāti Ira hapū of Te Whakatōhea, and lives on Wellington’s south coast with three generations of his family.
