NOVELISTS
Diana Gabaldon (1952- )
Diana Gabaldon was born and brought up in Arizona, USA. She studied science at university obtaining degrees in Zoology, Marine Biology, and Quantitative Behavioural Ecology. As a professor with an expertise in scientific computation she published several articles and textbooks and worked as an editor on the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Computers.
Her career as a fiction writer began in 1991 with the publication of the first in the 'Outlander' series, stories which centre around a time-travelling 20th-century nurse and her 18th-century Scottish husband. Much of the action takes place in and around the Highlands of Scotland. To date, six books have been published in this award-winning series. 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', the most recent, opened simultaneously at number one on the bestseller lists of four countries, and won both a Quill Award and the Corine international literary prize for fiction.
Diana has also written historical mysteries and several novellas featuring Lord John Grey, a secondary character from the original 'Outlander' series.
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Readers write...Lori Renfro
- Texas, USA
I can't say enough about Diana Gabaldon! Her Outlander series has brought an awareness to the great Scottish people and land that many would never know about, were it not for her books.
I can't say enough about Diana Gabaldon! Her Outlander series has brought an awareness to the great Scottish people and land that many would never know about, were it not for her books.
All books listed in the bibliography below are available from Highland Libraries – click on the red book icon to check the full bibliographic record.
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes
(2005)
- An Echo in the Bone
(2010)
- Cross Stitch
(1992)
- Dragonfly in Amber
(1994)
- Drums of Autumn
(2001)
- Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
(2007)
- Lord John and the Hand of Devils
(2007)
- Lord John and the Private Matter
(2003)
- The Fiery Cross
(2001)
- Voyager
(1994)
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