Clive Turnbull

{{Short description|Australian writer and journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arnold |first=John |date=2014 |title=Turnbull, Clive |url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/9564275 |access-date=19 January 2025 |website=AustLit}}</ref> 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== {{Reflist}} * [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/turnbull-stanley-clive-11893 The Australian Dictionary of Biography]

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