Diane Duane (born May 18, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, long based in Ireland. Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.
Born in New York City, she grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island. After school, she studied nursing and practiced as a psychiatric nurse for two years until 1976, when she moved to California and worked as an assistant to David Gerrold. Her first novel was published by Dell Books in 1979; Gerrold wrote an "overture" to that novel, stating he'd rather be making overtures than introductions to Duane. She subsequently worked as a freelance writer. In 1981, she moved to Pennsylvania.
She married Northern Irish author Peter Morwood in 1987; they later moved to the United Kingdom and then to Ireland, where they resided in Grangecon, County Wicklow.
So You Want to Be a Wizard. Delacorte. 1983. ISBN 0-15-204738-7.
Deep Wizardry. Delacorte. 1985. ISBN 0-15-216257-7.
High Wizardry. Corgi. 1990. ISBN 0-15-216244-5.
A Wizard Abroad. Corgi. 1993. ISBN 0-15-216238-0.
The Wizard's Dilemma. Harcourt. 2001. ISBN 0-15-202551-0.
A Wizard Alone. Harcourt. 2002. ISBN 0-15-204562-7.
Wizard's Holiday. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2003. ISBN 0-15-204771-9.
Wizards at War. Harcourt. 2005. ISBN 0-15-204772-7.
A Wizard of Mars. Harcourt. April 2010. ISBN 978-0-15-205449-6.
Interim Errantry. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. October 2015. ISBN 978-1518688256.
Games Wizards Play. Harcourt. 2 February 2016. ISBN 978-0547418063.
A short story within the same universe, "Uptown Local", has also been published as part of Jane Yolen's Dragons and Dreams anthology, and a podcast of Duane reading it is freely available from her website. It also appears in the twentieth anniversary edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard.
In February 2011, Duane announced she would be releasing new versions of the first 4 books in the series, updating the technology used in the books, fixing some timeline issues within the series, and overall making the series more appealing to contemporary young adult readers. The first of the series would be available in June 2011, initially in ebook format, with the next three books to follow in the succeeding months and all these to have new ISBNs, with the publisher switching to the revised editions with new covers around the time the next book in the series is released.
The series, in the same setting as the Young Wizards novels, focuses on cat-wizards, who maintain the worldgates that wizards use for travel between the sheaf of canonical universes.
Book of Night with Moon. Hodder & Stoughton. 1997. ISBN 0-340-69329-0.