Pen name Diane Pearson Name Diane Pearson Period 1967-Present | Nationality British Occupation Novelist Role Book editor | |
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Born Diane Margaret Pearson
November 5, 1931 (age 92)
Croydon, London, England, UK ( 1931-11-05 ) Genre romance, science fiction Spouse Richard Leech (m. 1975–2004) People also search for Richard Leech, Eliza McClelland Books Csardas, The summer of the Barsh, The Marigold Field, The bride of Tancred, Sarah Whitman | ||
British book editor and author Diane Pearson Died at 85
Diane Pearson (5 November 1931 – 15 August 2017) was a British book editor and romance novelist, who has been translated into several languages.
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In 1994, she won the British Book Award for Editor of the Year and was the President of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 1986 to 2011, when she retired.
Biography
Diane Margaret Pearson was born on 5 November 1931 in Croydon, London, England, daughter of Miriam Harriet Youde and William Holker. During her childhood, she often visited her grandparents in a village on the Surrey/Kent borders. She attended Secondary School in Croydon.
At 16, she started her career in publishing with Jonathan Cape Ltd, and was senior editor at Transworld for 38 years. In 1994, she won the British Book Award for Editor of the Year.
In addition, she is the writer of several short stories and novels, which have been translated into several languages.
In 1975, she became the second wife of the Irish actor and physician Richard Leeper McClelland (a.k.a. Richard Leech) (1922–2004). As a widow, she lived in her native London until her death in 2017.