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 on The Herald. 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.

Clive Turnbull

Bibliography

Black War: The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines, F. W. Cheshire, 1943; Sun Books, 1948 A Concise History of Australia, Thames and Hudson, 1965.

Clive Turnbull

References

The Australian Dictionary of Biography

1906 births

1975 deaths

Australian biographers

Male biographers

20th-century biographers

20th-century male writers

20th-century Australian journalists

The Mercury (Hobart) people

Clive Turnbull