A clergyman who spent time stationed at Mosman in Sydney, D. P. MacDonald was the author of two fictional works, A Miser's Legacy : Australian Romance (1909) and Nicholas Simon : A Romance of Revolution (1915).
Discussing marriage, home and family life, MacDonald also published the non-fictional work, Your Marriage (1930). This book was produced in response to the many requests he received asking that his 'press articles and pulpit deliverances upon this theme should be preserved in some more permanent form'.