Diane Renee Thomas was an American screenwriter who wrote the 1984 film Romancing the Stone and also co-wrote Steven Spielberg's 1989 film Always. She was also originally hired to write the third Indiana Jones movie, finishing a draft for what would be a "haunted mansion movie" before the decision was made to make a different movie.
Diane Wakoski is an American poet. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism.
Diane Wei Liang is a Chinese-born writer living in London.
Diane Wolkstein was a folklorist and author of children's books. She was New York City's official storyteller from 1967 to 1971.
Dianna Booher is an American author and communication expert. She is also the chief executive of Booher Research Institute, a Colleyville, Texas-based company that offers communication consulting, executive coaching, and publishing strategies for Fortune 500 organizations and nonprofit organizations.
Dianna Hutts Aston is an American author specializing in books on science and nature, especially for children. She attended the University of Houston to study Journalism and Political Science. She has gained acclaim in literary and science circles for her 'poetic' style. She collaborates with illustrators that produce bright colorful images. She has appeared as an expert guest on NPR's Science Friday. Among her many awards and citations, she has been a finalist and winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books several times. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama chose her book "The Moon Over Star" to read to a Washington DC classroom in February 2009.
Dianne Wolfer is an Australian children's author who lives on the south coast of Western Australia. Her latest title, ‘Munjed Al Muderis - From Refugee to Surgical Inventor’ is Book Three of Aussie STEM Stars by Wild Dingo Press.
Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor. Since 1997, he has been Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford.
Dicaearchus of Messana, also written Dikaiarchos, was a Greek philosopher, geographer and author. Dicaearchus was a student of Aristotle in the Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He wrote on geography and the history of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece. Although modern scholars often consider him a pioneer in the field of cartography, this is based on a misinterpretation of a reference in Cicero to Dicaearchus' tabulae, which does not refer to any maps made by Dicaearchus but is a pun on account books and refers to Dicaearchus' Descent into the Sanctuary of Trophonius. He also wrote books on ancient Greek poets, philosophy and politics.
Dick Bruna was a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer.
