Isabel Ray Carter was a member of the Australian Society of Authors. She was 'woman's page' editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper, and a biographer. Her works include Southern Cloud (Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1963); God and Three Shillings: The Story of the Brotherhood of St. Laurence (Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1967); and Phar Lap : The Story of the Big Horse (Melbourne : Lansdowne, 1964).