Jon Cleary
November 22, 1917 – July 19, 2010
Countries:
Australia
Place of Birth:
Erskineville, New South Wales, Australia
Place of Death:
New South Wales, Australia
Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 1917 – 19 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including The Sundowners (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and The High Commissioner (1966), the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. A number of Cleary's works have been the subject of film and television adaptations.