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Diane Dettmann

Diane Dettman is the author of Courageous Footsteps: A WWII Novel, winner of the Pacific Rim Book Festival, and the sequel, Yasu's Quest: A Tale of Triumph. Her memoir, Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewal, was awarded runner-up in the Beach Book Festival Awards. Diane is also the co-author of Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants and a contributing author for the national Women’s Voices for Change organization in New York City and the Open to Hope Foundation in Palo Alto, California.

September 21, 2016

Yasu’s Quest: A Tale of Triumph

Author Diane Dettman continues her epic saga of a young Japanese American woman's life in an internment camp—and her struggle to move beyond the...

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September 11, 2016

A Widow’s Unexpected Outcome of Grief

After the death of Diane Dettman's husband in 2000, her world as she knew it splintered into tiny pieces. Everything changed, including her. This...

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March 5, 2014

The True Reward

Diane Dettmann tells us about the value of Truthtelling and how sharing her story has changed her life. She is the author of Twenty-Eight...

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