Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon was born in 1952 in the American town of Flagstaff, Arizona. She did not immediately decide that she would become a writer; instead, she chose biology. At the University of Arizona, she first studied zoology, then completed a graduate course in marine biology, and earned her doctorate in quantitative behavioral ecology. While working on her postdoctoral research, she wrote a couple of comics for Disney. After that, she worked in her profession for 12 years at the Arizona Ecology Center. In addition, for seven years she published the scientific journal Scientific Software. Then, after the advent of the computer, she redirected her scientific and educational work into a new area: she became interested in computer technology and began publishing a journal on software for scientists.

Closer to the age of forty, Diana wanted to write. It was not that she had any specific idea, but she felt like writing a novel. Soon she also found a subject and a direction: Diana had always loved mystery novels and decided to try herself in exactly this genre. And the subject? It was chosen completely by chance: inspired by Scotland, Gabaldon decided to write about the Scots. Her first novel, Outlander, was published in 1991. But it gained recognition a year and a half earlier, when Diana began posting excerpts online. After it, the author continued the same story by writing a sequel. Later, a television series was made based on this story. In addition to Outlander, Gabaldon has released several more series and continues to write.