Dorothy Cottrell

Dorothy Cottrell
Born 1902
New South Wales, Picton
Died 1957
Occupation novelist

Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell (1902–1957), 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.[1]

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