biography
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Johnston, George Henry
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pseudonym Shane Martin
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1912–70)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. He studied at the National Gallery Arts School, Melbourne, worked as a journalist, and became a war correspondent during World War 2, where he gathered much source material. Returning to journalism after the war, he worked in London before making a new home on the Greek island of Hydra, where he wrote several books. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical trilogy My Brother Jack (1964), Clean Straw for Nothing (1969), and the unfinished A Cartload of Clay (1971). He wrote a great deal in collaboration with his wife, Charmian Clift (1923–69). |
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