Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence

About the Author

Doris (Garimara) Pilkington was born on the Balfour Downs Station, Western Australia, in 1932. At a very young age, Pilkington, along with her mother and baby sister, were removed from their home and shipped to the Moore River Native Settlement. Their forced removal was part of a governmental program that was aimed at assimilating aboriginal peoples into white culture. In 1990, Pilkington won the David Unaipon Award for her book Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, her second book was published in 1996 and it was turned into a film in 2002. Also in 2002, her third book Under the Wintamarra Tree was published. (UQ Press)