Clive Turnbull

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 ISBN 0-7251-0183-0
  • A Concise History of Australia, Thames and Hudson, 1965.

References


  1. ^ Arnold, John (2014). "Turnbull, Clive". AustLit. Retrieved 19 January 2025.

 

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