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Francis Patrick Clune, OBE, (27 November 189311 March 1971) was a best-selling Australian author, travel writer and popular historian. ==Early life and career== Frank Clune was born in Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1893, and grew up in Redfern. He left home at 15 and for five years lived the life of an adventurer, claiming to have had twenty-five different jobs by the age of 17, and enlisting with the US Army in Kansas 26 October 1911, deserting and going to sea. Clune joined the AIF in 1915 during World War I and was soon with the 16th Battalion at Gallipoli. He was wounded in action and repatriated a year after being wounded in both legs. He married Maud Roy in 1916; they divorced in 1920. He married again in 1923 to artist and sculptor Thelma Cecily Smith (1900–1992), established himself as a tax consultant and by 1930 had settled in Vaucluse〔 His first book was published in 1933 : ''Try Anything Once'', an account of his adventures. Some of his subsequent books were written in collaboration with P R 'Inky' Stephensen, notably ''The Viking of Van Diemen's Land'' and ''The Pirates of the Brig 'Cyprus. He was fascinated by the 'outsiders' of Australian history such as Captain Melville, Captain Starlight, Martin Cash, Edward Hargraves, Bully Hayes, Jørgen Jørgensen, Chinese Morrison, Ben Hall, Ned Kelly, Frederick Bailey Deeming and Louis de Rougemont Clune also wrote for magazines such as ''Smith's Weekly'' and ''ABC Weekly''. He broadcast "Roaming Round Australia" regularly on The ABC from 1945–1957.〔 Frank Clune was an effective promoter of Albert Namatjira and Australian aborigines generally. Clune had his detractors in literary world. He was criticised for embellishing the facts in the interests of the narrative, and was met with hostility by General Sir Thomas Blamey for his "irregular methods and indiscreet utterances" during WWII.〔 Regardless of criticism, by the early 1950s, his books had sold in excess of 500,000 copies, much to the delight of his publisher Angus & Robertson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Clune」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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