Diane Pearson was born in London, England on November 5, 1931. She was a senior editor at Transworld Publishers from 1964 to 2002. In 1994, she received the British Book Award for Editor of the Year. She was also the President of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 1986 to 2011. She wrote several romance novels including The Marigold Field, Sarah Whitman, Csardas, and The Summer of the Barshinskeys. She died on August 15, 2017 at the age of 85.
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