Clive Turnbull
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Stanley Clive Perry Turnbull (22 December 1906 – 25 May 1975) was an Australian writer and journalist.
He was born in Glenorchy in Tasmania. He joined The Mercury newspaper as a reporter in 1922 and then moved to Melbourne where he worked as a staff writer on The Herald, where in 1942, Murdoch appointed him as art critic, in which role he championed Modernism.[1] He is best known for his book Black War that examined the extermination of Indigenous Australians in Tasmania. He also wrote a series of biographies.
Bibliography
- Black War: The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines, F. W. Cheshire, 1943; Sun Books, 1948 Template:ISBN
- A Concise History of Australia, Thames and Hudson, 1965.
References
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