Diane Daniels Manning
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Diane Daniels Manning

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Diane Daniels Manning was raised in Redding, Connecticut, the setting for her novel ALMOST PERFECT. As a youngster, she rode her bike up and down former cow paths to the Mark Twain Library where she plundered the children's shelves and fantasized she would grow up to a famous writer like Samuel Clemens. Inevitably she was educated, taught English and reading in Connecticut, and earned a Ph.D. in Education and a post-doctoral M.P.H. from Harvard. She climbed the tenure ladder and served as Director of the Reading and Learning Disabilities at Tufts University. There she became convinced that special needs children are best helped when equal attention is paid to their emotional and their academic lives. Her Standard Poodle, Bel Tor Mandy, accompanied her to work daily and taught her the therapeutic benefit of animals. Following an appointment at Harvard School of Public Health, she moved to New Orleans where she served as Chair of the Department of Education at Tulane and became certified as a child and adult psychoanalyst by the American Psychoanalytic Association. When her students at Tulane didn’t believe women once had to choose between teaching and marriage, often being fired if they married, she realized important memories from the past were being lost. The oral histories she collected of teachers who taught from 1920-1970 are preserved in HILL COUNTRY TEACHER and BUT WE MADE IT! She resigned her tenure and moved to Houston to co-found a therapeutic school for bright children with social-emotional challenges. She served as Executive and Clinical Director for a dozen years. She learned the workings of dog show kennels by writing an authorized oral history of a past President of the Poodle Club of America. She blended what she learned from her poodle mentor with her experience helping children, and ALMOST PERFECT was the result. Currently, she lives outside Chapel Hill, N.C. where she is an adult and child psychoanalyst. Her writing awards include the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for her novella, A YELLOW SHOTGUN ON DEMETER STREET. A scene involving Martin Luther King won a Women in Film and Television Short Script Competition. She has recently completed a middle grade novel, DEAR MR. PRESIDENT.
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