John Clanchy (born 1 August 1943) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.
[1] Prior to taking up fiction writing full-time, he worked for more than two decades at the Australian National University as head of an academic advisory center for students and, later, as Foundation Director of the Graduate Teaching Program in the university’s Graduate School.
[2] Together with his colleague and partner, Brigid Ballard, he is the author of many articles and textbooks on academic writing, study, teaching and research, and cross-cultural education.
[6] He has written two crime novels, If God Sleeps and And Hope to Die (co-authored with Mark Henshaw[7] under the pseudonym J.M.
Calder), which have appeared with Penguin Viking in Australia, Gallimard in France and Rowohlt in Germany – the last becoming a German bestseller and Book Club edition.