Gabrielle Carey parents: Meet Alex Carey & Joan Carey

Gabrielle Carey, an Australian author, was born on January 10, 1959, to parents Alex Carey and Joan Carey.

Gabrielle was best known for her collaboration with Kathy Lette on the teen novel Puberty Blues.

Meet Alex Carey, Gabrielle Carey’s father

Alexander Edward Carey was an Australian writer, author, social psychologist, academic, and sociologist who was born on December 1, 1922.

He was a psychology lecturer at the University of New South Wales from 1958 until his death. His lectures and research focused on industrial psychology, industrial relations, and the psychology of nationalism and propaganda.

In 1960, he was one of the founding members of the Australian Humanist Society.

Alex Carey was an outspoken opponent of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War in the 1970s.

Alex Carey took his own life in 1987. Members of his family speculated that his reasons included significant financial losses from that year’s stock market crash and a battle with depression in his final years.

Gabrielle recently wrote about her father, Alex Carey’s, suicide.

In a December article in The Sydney Morning Herald, she stated that he died on the day he turned 64, the same age as her.

Gabrielle stated:

‘I became terrified of that number,’

‘If I have inherited my father’s disposition for depression, did that mean I would also end up in an early grave?’

Meet Joan Carey, Gabrielle Carey’s mother

Much less is known about Gabrielle Carey’s mother than about her father.

Her mother died of cancer in 2009, after which she wrote her second memoir, Waiting Room.

When did Gabrielle Carey die?

Gabrielle died on May 3, 2023 at age 64, the same age as her father.