Nene Gare

Nene Gare was an Australian writer and artist, best known as the author of the novel The Fringe Dwellers , which was made into the 1986 Australian film of the same name directed by Bruce Beresford.

Gare was born Doris Violet May Wadham in Adelaide, South Australia. Born in 1919 in Adelaide, her parents John Henry Wadham and Mary Hounslow Wadham were strict Methodists. Gare attended Adelaide Art School and then Perth Technical School, returning to Adelaide to work as a typist from 1938 to 1939.

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