Paul Grano was born in Ararat, Victoria in 1894 , the fifth child of Theodore George Grano and Kate Cecilia 'Cecily' (nee Patten). He had another nine siblings from his father's second marriage to Ellen Mary Schuback. From 1899 the Grano family lived at the house named Dominica in Ararat. The house had been built as a wedding present for Theodore's second wife.
The Grano family originated in Spain and, later, the West Indies (St Kitts, Martinique, Dominica). Paul Grano's grandfather G. W. H. Grano arrived in Geelong in 1857 and established his hardware business and family in Ararat. His son Theodore Grano established a legal practice in Ararat.
Paul Grano was educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat. He studied law at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1916. For a time Grano practised law at Stawell. On 11 December 1919 he married Violet Irene Galloway. They had a son and twin daughters. The Granos moved to Brisbane in about 1932, and Paul Grano established himself as a journalist and poet. He wrote for Australia, and the Brisbane Catholic Advocate. He was a contemporary of James Picot, Brian Vrepont, Martin Haley, Frank Francis and James Devaney. He published several volumes of poetry. He died in 1975 and bequeathed his body to the medical faculty of the University of Queensland.

Brian Thomas Doyle (1915 - 2003) was the Managing Editor of The Catholic Leader in Brisbane from 1959 to 1981 and had previously been Associate Editor of Sydney’s Catholic Weekly from 1944. A prodigious writer, he was regarded as one of Australia’s leading Catholic lay journalists in his stand against clerical intervention, amongst other issues such as social reform and social justice. He was the first layperson to be President of the Catholic Press Association (from 1966 to 1968). Doyle was also a formidable opponent of B.A. Santamaria for invoking the authority of the Church for partisan political goals in the 1950s. Born in Sydney, he was educated at Marist Brothers Randwick and Dux of the college in 1932 Doyle trained and worked with the Public Library of NSW from 1933 to 1941 and was a foundation member of the Australian Library Association. An active public speaker and lecturer, he closely studied the Australian political scene, particularly the Catholic Church and politics Ill health prevented him from writing a book on ‘The Movement’.