Background
DUTTON, Geoffrey Piers Henry was born on August 2, 1922 in Anlaby, S. Australia. Son of Henry Hampden Dutton and Emily Dutton (nee Martin).
DUTTON, Geoffrey Piers Henry was born on August 2, 1922 in Anlaby, S. Australia. Son of Henry Hampden Dutton and Emily Dutton (nee Martin).
Geelong Grammar School, Vic., University of Adelaide, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Lecturer in English, University of Adelaide 1954-1962. Commonwealth Fellow, University of Leeds, England 1960. Visiting Professor, Kansas State University, United States of America 1962.
Founding; founder and Director Sun Books since 1965.
42 books of poetry, biography, fiction, literary and art criticism, travel, children's. They include Nightflight and Sunrise 1944, Antipodes in Shoes 1958, Walt Whitman 1961, Patrick White 1961, Russell Drysdale 1964, The Literature of Australia 1964, Poems Soft and Loud 1967, Tamara 1969, Australia’s Censorship Crisis (with M. Harris) 1970, Findings and Keepings 1970, New Poems to 1972, Australian Verse from 1805-1976, A Body of Words 1978, Patterns of Australia 1980, The Australian Heroes 1981, T. Gill’s Australia 1981, The Eye-Opener 1982, In Search of Edward John Eyre 1982, The Prowler 1982, Snow on the Saltbush 1984, The Australian Collection 1985, The Innovators 1986, Kanga Creek 1989, The Picador Henry Lawson 1990, The Enigma of a Poet—Kenneth Slessor 1990.
Australian Council for the Arts, Commonwealth Literary Fund, Literature Board. Australia Council 1968-1978. Council, Australian National University 1976-1980.
Married 1st Ninette Clarice Florence Trott in 1944 (divorced in 1985), two son one daughter. Married 2nd Robin Lucas in 1985.