James McQueen (5 August 1934 – 19 December 1998)[1] was an Australian novelist and short story writer.
Born in Ulverstone, Tasmania, McQueen had a variety of jobs, studied at the National Art School in Sydney, and completed a four-year course in accountancy.
[2] He began writing fiction in 1975, and wrote full-time from 1977, living in Nabowla, north-eastern Tasmania, near Scottsdale.
[3] He wrote more than 150 stories, which were published in various countries as well as numerous Australian periodicals before being collected in six volumes.
White Light and The Heavy Knife were the first two novels of an uncompleted trilogy, The Clocks of Death.