Charmian Clift

Charmian Clift

Charmian Clift (1923–1969) was an acclaimed Australian writer. She left Australia and then London to live on the Greek Island of Hydra in the 1950s with her husband George Johnston. Her books include Mermaid Singing (1956), and Peel Me a Lotus (1959), and the Sydney Morning Herald-Literary Competition winning High Valley (1949), co-written with George Johnston and also part of the Untapped Collection.