Diane Simmons

Diane Simmons is the author of numerous award-winning works of fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and criticism.  A Westerner and former newspaper and magazine reporter in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, Simmons holds a BA in history, an MA in Creative Writing, and a Ph.D. in English literature. She is Professor Emerita at City University of New York and a former Fulbright Fellow to the Czech Republic. 

Her books include:

The Courtship of Eva Eldridge, which “…traces one woman’s story through hundreds of wartime letters and papers, ultimately uncovering postwar America’s rampant bigamy and the women who overcame it.” (The New Yorker)

Dreams Like Thunder, winner of the Oregon Book Award, which, the judges said: “…gives characters as willful, funny, and morally interesting as Flannery O’Connor’s. Simmons’ language is spare and because of its compression, wonderfully rich and powerful.”

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