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(a.k.a.
Cleary, Stephen; Cleary, Jon Stephen; Cleary, John
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Born: 22 Nov 1917 Sydney, New South Wales
Died: 20 Jul 2010 Sydney, New South Wales
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Jon Cleary grew up as part of a large and impoverished working-class Catholic family in the inner Sydney suburb of Erskineville. Educated by the Marist brothers in Randwick, Cleary was forced by poverty to leave school before he turned fifteen. He worked in a wide variety of jobs, including as a film cartoonist, salesman, laundryman and commercial artist, and was often out of work, before joining the Australian Imperial Force in 1940 and serving in the Middle East and Papua New Guinea. In 194....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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Last amended:
2 Aug 2010