Diana O'Hehir


Diana Farnham O'Hehir is a poet and writer of prose from northern California. She was born in Berkeley in 1929. She taught from 1961 to 1992 at Mills College in Oakland where she is Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Professor Emerita of American Literature. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Mel Fiske. Their reunion, after 35 years of divorce, and her subsequent remarriage is recounted in a 1999 essay in salon.com.
Though not very prolific, her output of three volumes of poetry and four novels are highly regarded.
Her two most recent novels, Murder Never Forgets and Erased from Memory are mystery novels featuring a young woman and her Alzheimers-afflicted father

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