Doris Pilkington Garimara
(1937-2014)
Indigenous Australian author
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Doris Pilkington Garimara AM (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author. She wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled 2,414 km (1,500 miles) for nine weeks to return to their family.
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1937 Jigalong, Western Australia, Australian
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10 April 2014 (aged 76) Perth, Western Australia
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