Peter Wells (director)

Peter Northe Wells (8 February 1950 – 18 February 2019) was a New Zealand writer and filmmaker and historian. He was born in Auckland. His best known work was "Desperate Remedies" (1993). Wells' 2003 novel "Iridescence" was a runner up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and a finalist in the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize.
In 2006, Wells was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He was openly gay.
Personal life.
Wells, who was gay, was married to the writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins. Wells died from prostate cancer at Mercy Hospice under hospice care in Auckland on 18 February 2019, aged 69.