Brian Penton was born in Brisbane in 1904 and educated at the Brisbane Grammar School. He was a controversial journalist and novelist whose interests ranged from literature, art and politics to yachting. In 1924 he married Olga Grace Moss, a Latin and English teacher at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School. In 1925 they moved to Sydney and Brian Penton wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald. From 1928 - 1933 the Pentons lived in London, where they were close with Jack and Norman Lindsay and P R (Inky) Stepehenson. Brian Penton worked as a sub-editor for the Daily Express and as editor of the Fanfrolico Press, while Olga Penton taught in a more lucrative job at the Pitman Business College. In 1933 the Pentons moved back to Sydney where Brian Penton began work for the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He was the editor from 1941. He led the campaign against censorship of the press during the Second World War. The ensuing court case was the subject of Censored! in 1947. His novel Landtakers, written in 1934, was acclaimed. He died in 1951.

Olga Grace Moss who was born in or near Tenterfield in 1896. She was a boarder and then a teacher at Rockhampton Girls' Grammar School for several years. She also worked at the New England Girls'School in Armidale in 1916. After moving to Brisbane she was a Latin and English teacher at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School. On 6 January 1924 she married the journalist Brian Penton. The Pentons moved to Sydney in late 1925 where Brian Penton commenced work for the Sydney Morning Herald. He was that paper's correspondent in Canberra in 1927/28. From 1928 to 1933 the Pentons lived in London, where they were close to Jack and Norman Lindsay and P R (Inky) Stephenson. Olga Penton taught at Pitman's Business College. Her A Rapid Latin Course was published by Pitman in 1933 and she received substantial royalties from the sale of the book. Her husband's time in London as the sub-editor at the Daily Express and editor of the soon-to-be defunct Fanfrolico Press was less financially rewarding. In 1933 the Pentons moved to Sydney where Brian Penton began working for the Telegraph. After his death in 1951, Olga Penton worked at the Shakespeare Head Press and the Golden Press, publisher of the Little Golden Books. Olga Penton wrote a number of unpublished novels. She died in Sydney in 1972.