ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Dianne Hales is a widely published and honored author and journalist. Her most recent trade book was the bestselling La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World’s Most Enchanting Language, for which the president of Italy awarded her an honorary knighthood, with the title of Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity).

In addition to writing trade and text books, Dianne Hales has served as a contributing editor for Parade, Ladies’ Home Journal, American Health, and Working Mother, and has written more than a thousand articles for national publications, including Family Circle, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Mademoiselle, McCall’s, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Seventeen, The Washington Post, and Woman’s Day.

A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Dianne is one of the few journalists to be honored with national awards for excellence in magazine writing by both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. Her writing awards include an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women’s Political Caucus and Radcliffe College, a National Mature Media Award, and commendations from various organizations, including the California Psychiatric Society, the National Easter Seal Society, and the New York Public Library.

Dianne, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the wife of Dr. Robert E. Hales, chair of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, and the mother of Julia Hales.

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