Clive Turnbull

Stanley Clive Perry Turnbull was an Australian writer and journalist.
He was born in Glenorchy in Tasmania. He joined The [Mercury (Hobart)|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 List of [Australian art critics (news periodicals)|art critic], in which role he championed Modernism. 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.