Diane Chamberlain family dramas edged with suspense

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Author Biography

Diane Chamberlain is the author of 17 novels published in more than eleven languages. She writes complex stories about relationships between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters, and friends.
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Influences

E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, which my first grade teacher read to our class. It was the first time a story made me cry, and it was full of love and sacrifice, wonder and suspense--things that still influence my writing today.

Alice Hoffman, whose books were my bibles more than two decades ago, when I first started writing.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose Gift from the Sea is a lesson in relationships taught at, on and through my favorite setting--the beach.

Maya Angelou, whose magic with words never fails to mesmerize me.

The everyday people who cope with life's adversities while still managing to see their glass half full. It's their stories I find most intriguing.

Favorite Books

Poisonwood Bible
The Glass Castle
The Pilot's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Favorite Authors

Barbara Kingsolver, Anita Shreve, Alice Hoffman, Pat Conroy, Lee Smith, Ann Rivers Siddons, Luanne Rice, Elizabeth Berg

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Events

Diane Chamberlain: Book Signing with Diane Chamberlain
January 24, 2009 2:00pm - January 24, 2009 4:00pm
Norfolk, VA

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Diane Chamberlain: Live Chat: The Happy Bookers Club

Start: 08/04/2008 - 8:30pm

End: 08/04/2008 - 9:30pm

The Happy Bookers Club is pleased to announced that acclaimed author Diane Chamberlain will be joining us for a live chat! She is the author of 17 novels (among them, Bay at Midnight and The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes) and most recently, Before the Storm, which has received a glowing review in Publisher's Weekly. Also this year, Target Stores selected The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes as its Bookmarked Book Club pick for June 2008.

Ms. Chamberlain began her career with Private Relations, published in 1989, and has been focusing on book-length fiction ever since. To her credit, she also had a brief stint writing for daytime television on the soap opera One Life to Live.

We are honored to have Ms. Chamberlain join us and speak to us about her books, her career and the trials and tribulations of becoming a published author.

The chat will be held on: Monday August 4th
Time: 8:30 p.m. EST
Where: The Chat Room on the Tha Happy Bookers Club Forum

Web Link:

The Happy Bookers Club.com Forums

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http://www.thehappybookersclub.com/forums/