Diane Duane

Diane Duane was born in New York and trained as a nurse. She turned to writing novels and screenplays full-time in 1980, and, in 1988, moved to Ireland with her husband, Northern Irish writer Peter Morwood. Duane has published more than forty novels, numerous short stories, and various comics and computer games. Her books have repeatedly appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and have garnered numerous awards from such organizations as the American Librarians' Association and the New York Public Library. Duane is presently best known for her continuing Young Wizards series of young adult fantasy novels about the New York-based teenage wizards Nita Callahan and Kit Rodriguez. For these books she received a special commendation in the prestigious Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize in Children's Literature. Diane Duane lives in Wicklow.