They married in 1956 and had three sons.ĭiana wrote both children's books and plays (mostly performed at the London Arts Theatre) and her first book was published in 1973. It was here she met her husband, John A Burrow, Professor of English at Bristol University. Her higher education began in 1953 when she went up to St Anne's College Oxford, and attended lectures by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. This taught her from an early age the invaluable lesson of how to finish a book. However between ages of 12 and 14, the young writer completed two epic tales scrawled in a total of 20 copy books. She was extremely dyslexic, so when she told her parents she wanted to be a writer, they just laughed. So, armed with a vivid imagination and an insatiable quest for good books to read, she decided that she would have to write them herself. As children, Diana and her two sisters were deprived of a good, steady supply of books by a father, 'who could beat Scrooge in a meanness contest'.
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