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Dictionary of Literary Biography on George Johnston
George Johnston is best remembered for his widely read novel My Brother Jack, published in 1964, the first book of a trilogy not quite finished when he died. This novel is a first-person narration by David Meredith of his Australian suburban childhood between the world wars and his eventual attainment of dubious success as a writer and war correspondent. Johnston's earlier writings included fiction and semidocumentary works that grew from his work as a war correspondent, especially in Asia. Three early novels were written in collaboration with his second wife, Charmian Clift. In 1951 Johnston took a post as a newspaper executive in London, but after five years he and Clift decided to take their young family and move to Greece, where they would attempt to live as full-time writers. Their struggle to survive, and the problems that grew from it, prompted Johnston to embark on his Meredith trilogy and...
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