Stanley Clive Perry Turnbull (22 December 1906 – 25 May 1975) was an Australian writer and
journalist
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.
He was born in
Glenorchy in
Tasmania
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. He joined ''
The Mercury'' newspaper as a reporter in 1922 and then moved to
Melbourne
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where he worked on ''
The Herald''. He is best known for his book ''Black War'' that examined the extermination of
Indigenous Australians
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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
* ''A Concise History of Australia'', Thames and Hudson, 1965.
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
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