Gene Kemp née Rushton (27 December 1926 – 4 January 2015) was an English author known for children's books.
She won the British Carnegie Medal for her school novel The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (1977).
Kemp found inspiration for many of the characters in her books amongst the friends of her children, Chantal and Richard.
Kemp wrote ghost stories and fantasy as well as realistic fiction, like Seriously Weird, which is told from the perspective of the sister of a young man with Asperger syndrome.
She also dramatised some of her work, the most successful and well-known of these being Charlie Lewis Plays for Time, another Cricklepit story.