Dorothy Cottrell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dorothy Cottrell

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1902

Place of Birth: Picton, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 29-Jun-1957

Profession: journalist, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell (16 July 1902 – 29 June 1957), better known as Dorothy Cottrell, was an Australian writer.
Born in Picton, she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
Her first novel, The Singing Gold, was published in 1928.
She wrote a story Wilderness Orphan (1936) which was the basis for the feature film Orphan of the Wilderness (1936).
She lived for a time in the US and also worked as an artist and cartoonist.