Diane Duane

What draws me to Diane Duane is her refusal to stay in one lane. She built the Young Wizards series on a quietly radical idea, that magic carries the obligation to mend a broken world, then turned around and gave Star Trek's Romulans a genuine inner life in her Rihannsu novels. Born in New York but long settled in Ireland, she has kept writing across screenplays, blogs, and fiction for over half a century. I admire that kind of stamina. She strikes me less as a flashy talent than a steady flame, the sort of author whose influence sneaks up on you years later.

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Name (English)

Diane Duane

Name (Japanese)

ダイアン・デュアン

Reading

だいあん・でゅあん

Born

May 18, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / writer / novelist / blogger / children's writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

University

Dowling College

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.dianeduane.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/diane.duane/
• Xhttps://x.com/dduane
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Duane
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445930

Tags

• New York
• screenwriter
• writer
• novelist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.