Geoffrey Dutton AO (1922–1998) was a prodigious writer and editor whose published works comprise poetry, novels, children's books, biographies, art history and literary criticism. A native of South Australia, he was raised on his family's property Anlaby and educated at Geelong Grammar. While studying at the University of Adelaide he met Max Harris, co-founder of the literary magazine Angry Penguins, and became a regular contributor to the magazine. Dutton joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1941 and was a flying instructor, surviving a plane crash late in the war. His first collection of poetry, Night Flight and Sunrise, was published in 1944. After the war, he studied English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford and lectured in English at Adelaide University. He and Harris founded the Australian Book Review in 1961 and later Dutton founded the publishing house Sun Books. He also worked as an editor for Penguin, the Australian and the Bulletin. Dutton's work regularly appeared in major literary journals and he published many collections of poetry, including Antipodes in Shoes (1958), which won the Grace Leven Poetry Prize. Having spent some time as a visiting professor of English at Kansas State University, in 1966 he edited Australia and the Monarchy, and in 1977, Republican Australia. He later became a founding member of the Australian Republican Movement. Dutton's autobiography, Out in the Open, was published in 1994.
