Geoffrey Dutton

Geoffrey Dutton was born in 1922 at Anlaby, the oldest stud sheep station in South Australia. He was educated at Geelong Grammar, Adelaide University and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied English Literature under C. S. Lewis. Dutton was founding editor of Penguin Australia in 1962 and became co-founder of Sun Books, Australian Letters and the Australian Book Review. He was also founding editor of the Bulletin Literary Supplement and, later, of the Australian Literary Magazine. He had over fifty books to his credit – poetry, biography, art and literary criticism, fiction and children’s writing. Dutton was awarded an Order of Australia and was the founding member at its launch.

Geoffrey Dutton died in September 1998.