Dorothy Cottrell Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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 USA and also worked as an artist and cartoonist.
[of living in a wheelchair because of polio:] "Certainly I would like to be able to walk, but if the good fairy of the old stories offered me the one gift, the ability to walk would not be the thing I would ask for. More years with my husband than I may normally expect, the ability to write better -- a dozen things -- would come before it."