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Life Summary

Name	Geoffrey Piers Henry Dutton
Born	2 August, 1922 Kapunda, South Australia, Australia
Died	17 September, 1998 (aged 76) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Cause of Death	stroke
Related Entries	[View as tree] Dutton, Emily (mother) Dutton, William Hampden (grandfather) Drysdale, George Russell (friend) White, Patrick Victor (friend) Clark, Charles Manning (friend) Manifold, John Streeter (friend) Campbell, David Watt (friend) Nolan, Sidney Robert (friend) Harris, Maxwell Henley (friend) Kershaw, Alister Nasmyth (friend) Brissenden, Robert Francis (friend) Semmler, Clement William (colleague) Mawson, Douglas (acquaintance) Coombs, Herbert Cole (acquaintance) Marshall, Alan John (acquaintance) Stewart, Douglas Alexander (acquaintance) Friend, Donald Stuart Leslie (acquaintance) Pugh, Clifton Ernest (acquaintance) Dransfield, Michael John (acquaintance) Darling, John (teacher) Slessor, Kenneth Adolf (subject)
Education *	Wykeham preparatory boarding school (Belair, South Australia) (student, 1930-1930) Geelong Grammar School (Vic) (student, 1931-1939) University of Adelaide (student, 1940-1940) Oxford University (student, 1946-1949)
Occupation or Descriptor *	aircraft pilot (1940-1945) Federal, Australia poet (1944-1998) South Australia, Australia farmer (1955-1984) South Australia, Australia university teacher (1955-1962) South Australia, Australia magazine/journal editor (1957-1984) South Australia, Australia book publisher (1963-1984) South Australia, Australia biographer (1982-1984) South Australia, Australia biographer (1984-1991) New South Wales, Australia poet (1984-1991) New South Wales, Australia biographer (1991-1991) Queensland, Australia poet (1991-1998) Queensland, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1994-1994) Queensland, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (airforce officer, 1941-1945)
Awards	Grace Leven prize (recipient, 1958) Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1976) Christopher Brennan award (Fellowship of Australian Writers) (recipient, 1993)
Clubs *	Adelaide Club (member, 1943-1966)
Key Events *	Adelaide Festival of Arts (organising committee)
Groups *	Angry Penguins (member)
Key Organisations *	Art Gallery of South Australia (board member) Association for the Study of Australian Literature (honorary member) Australian Council for the Arts (member, 1968-1969) Commonwealth Literary Fund advisory board (member, 1972) Australia Council (Literature Board) (member, 1973) Australian National University (council member, 1979) Australian Republican Movement (federal) (committee member, 1991)
Properties *	Anlaby (SA) (resident, 1922-1983)
Workplaces *	Australian Book Review (founder) University of Adelaide (lecturer, 1955-1962) Australian Letters (joint publisher, 1957-1968) University of Leeds (UK) (lecturer, 1960) Penguin Books Australia Ltd (founder, 1963) Sun Books (founder, 1965) Bulletin (magazine) (literary editor, 1980-1985) Bulletin (magazine) (literary editor, 1980-1985) Australian (newspaper) (literary editor, 1985-1988)

* Dates are approximate