Dorothy Wall
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Dorothy Wall (12 January 1894 - 21 January 1942) was a New Zealand born author and illustrator of children's fiction books. She is most famous for creating Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic koala who was the central character in her books Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian (1933), Blinky Bill Grows Up (1934) and Blinky Bill and Nutsy (1937).
Wall was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1894 and migrated to Australia in 1914. In 1942, she died of pneumonia in Cremorne, New South Wales.
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