Diane Duane

Diane Duane (born May 18, 1952, in New York City) is an American-Irish writer of science fiction and fantasy for television, film and print. She grew up on Long Island, trained as a psychiatric nurse, and published her first novel, The Door into Fire, in 1979, the first of the Middle Kingdoms series.

She is best known for the Young Wizards young adult series, which began with So You Want to Be a Wizard in 1983, and for her Star Trek fiction, including the Rihannsu novels, and the Next Generation episode "Where No One Has Gone Before". She has also written Spider-Man and SeaQuest DSV tie-in novels and the online-game thriller Omnitopia Dawn.

She has lived in Ireland since 1988 with her husband, the novelist Peter Morwood.