Diane Hanks
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Diane Hanks

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Born
Pawtucket, RI, The United States
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Historical Fiction

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April 2023


Diane Hanks has a BFA in Creative Writing from Roger Williams University and an MA in Professional Writing & Publishing from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. A medical writer by day, she has written numerous screenplays and recently returned to her first love—writing novels. Diane also is a mentor for the Writers Guild Initiative, which makes the art of storytelling accessible to underserved populations. When not writing, she enjoys walking by the river.

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Average rating: 4.23 · 2,035 ratings · 298 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
The Woman with a Purple Heart
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Diane Hanks liked Lily's review of The Woman with a Purple Heart:
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"Diane Hanks’s well-researched novel brings readers to 1941 Hawai’i, where tensions between white Americans and Japanese Americans are only growing as World War II amps up around the currently neutral United States. Hanks brings readers to the attack " Read more of this review »
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Diane Hanks liked Rhona Arthur's review of The Woman with a Purple Heart:
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"Does it say enough that I read this in less than 12hours? I was gripped. Diane Hanks - please write more!

A fabulous WWII historical novel based on the story of the first American woman to be awarded the Purple Heart (although they replaced it with a " Read more of this review »
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THE WOMAN WITH A PURPLE HEART by Diane Hanks is an enlightening, engaging, and heartbreaking historical fiction based on just a moment in a truly heroic career Army nurse’s service on one " Read more of this review »
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