Diana Gabaldon

Born and raised in Arizona, Diana Gabaldon studied Zoology and Marine Biology before obtaining her PhD in Behavioural Ecology from Northern Arizona University. She worked as a Professor at Arizona State University for twelve years before becoming a full-time writer.

Mixing historical fiction, adventure, science fiction and fantasy, Gabaldon’s bestselling Outlander series has been published in over 25 countries and has been translated into over 20 languages, as well as adapted for television. The opening novel, Cross Stitch (also published as Outlander, 1991) deposits its heroine Claire Randall, a twentieth-century nurse, in eighteenth-century Scotland in a spellbinding time-slip narrative full of romance and intrigue, while the ninth instalment in the series, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone (2021), takes her to the heart of the American War of Independence. Gabaldon has also written The Lord John series.