Nene Gare

Nene Gare
Nene Gere ca. 1940, aged 20/21
Born
Doris Violet May Wadham

9 May 1919
Died29 May 1994 (aged 75)
OccupationNovelist, artist and political activist
NationalityAustralian
SpouseFrank Ellis Gare
ChildrenArran (1942–47), Lief Frances (b 1945), Arran (b 1948), Helen Shelley (b 1952)

Nene Gare (9 May 1919 – 29 May 1994) was an Australian writer and artist, best known as the author of the novel The Fringe Dwellers (1961), which was made into the 1986 Australian film of the same name directed by Bruce Beresford.