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Name	Charmian Clift
Alternative Names	Charmian Johnston
Born	30 August, 1923 Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
Died	8 July, 1969 (aged 45) Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Johnston, George Henry (husband) Erdos, Renée Fauvette (teacher)
Occupation or Descriptor *	army officer (1943-1946) Federal, Australia short story writer (1944-1946) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1946-1946) Victoria, Australia novelist (1949-1951) New South Wales, Australia novelist (1951-1964) Overseas autobiographer/memoirist (1956-1959) Overseas columnist (1964-1969) New South Wales, Australia essayist (1964-1969) New South Wales, Australia scriptwriter (1965-1965) New South Wales, Australia
Key Organisations *	Committee for the Defence of Democracy in Greece (member)

* Dates are approximate