Diane Klein

About the author...

I grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois and Northwestern University on a four year State Scholarship. I majored in English and held high school teaching certificates in Illinois and Florida. I saw the intrusion of psychological programs into our schools as well as the departure from teaching basics such as reading, writing, arithmetic and social studies. I found this to be confusing and ineffective. Despite a love of working with young teenagers, I stopped teaching and moved to Florida for three years.

After accepting a job in southern California, I moved close to the Pacific Ocean where I've lived for over thirty years. I'm married to David, a software consultant and I have a son and two daughters, all married and living in southern California with seven adored grandchildren. My 'kids' and my husband have been wonderfully supportive of all of my efforts to publish my heartfelt first novel, In the Name of Help, and they all believe it should become a feature film.

From eleven years of age, I was always writing something: stories, descriptions, journals or articles for my high school paper. I received literary agent interest in a non-fiction piece and I won honorable mention in a Writers' Digest Contest with a non-fiction story about my younger daughter's incredible recovery from a serious car accident.

But I never felt compelled to write with the goal of publication until I became motivated to tell the story, In the Name of Help, which has been called the most formidable blow to the atrocities that exist in what we call our mental health system since Kesey's Cuckoo's Nest.

I enjoy novels and films which offer entertainment and from which I may even learn something: knowledge of another time or place, insight into a particular personality or new awareness of an unknown issue. That's what I hope my readers will find in this book and in my future novels.