Diane Swearingen
Diane Swearingen
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Biography
Diane Swearingen attended Florida State University receiving a BS in Elementary Education in 1972, and an MS in Library and Information Services in 1995. Diane worked in Leon County as a classroom teacher and a school media specialist, retiring in 2009 after thirty-six years. She published "Power," a non-fiction reading comprehension strategy, in the Florida Media Quarterly in 2009 and continued to work as a reading consultant for Renaissance Learning, Inc. until 2012.
The Smallest Tadpole's War in the Land of Mysterious Waters began with family research and has been a labor of love. Diane lives in Tallahassee with her husband, Thomas, the great-grandson of Thomas Franklin Swearingen on whose live the story is based.