Dorothy Auchterlonie was born in County Durham in England in 1915. She was educated in both England and Australia, and studied at the University of Sydney. She taught at various schools, and later becae the first female lecturer at Monash University, in 1961, lecturing in literature. She lectured later, at both the Australian National University and the Australian Defence Force Academy. She was awarded an AO for her services to literature.

She married H. M. Green .

Bibliography

• Kaleidescope (1940)
• Fourteen Minutes (1950; with H. M. Green)
• The music of love: critical essays on literature and life (1984)
• Ulysses bound: a study of Henry Handel Richardson and her fiction (1986)
• Descent of spirit: writing of E.L. Grant Watson (1990)