Doris Pilkington Garimara
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Doris Pilkington (born Nugi Garimara in 1937) is an Australian author. She is best known for her 1996 book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, 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 for nine weeks to return to their family. It is considered a powerful example of the mistreatments endured by the Stolen Generation. Her follow-up book, Under the Wintamarra Tree, details her own escape from Moore River. "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" was made into a successful film in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce.
Pilkington was born in the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong. She was taken from her mother to be raised at the Moore River mission when she was three and a half years old.
