Jon Cleary

writer, producer

Jon Cleary was born on Nov 22, 1917 in Australia. Jon Cleary's big-screen debut came with Dust in the Sun directed by Lee Robinson in 1958.

Left school at 15; became commercial artist, film cartoonist, laundryman and bushworker. First novel won second prize in Australia's biggest literary contest, launching his writing career. Novel "Peter's Pence" one American Edgar Allen Poe Prize as best crime novel of 1974.