Diane Thomas

Diane Thomas has lived in the Atlanta area most of her life. She graduated from Georgia State University, has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and has worked as a reporter and entertainment editor for the Atlanta Constitution, a feature writer for Atlanta Magazine and a freelance writer and editor.

Her debut novel, The Year the Music Changed, is a coming-of-age story told as a year-long correspondence between a disfigured Atlanta girl and a young Elvis Presley the year before he becomes famous. Library Journal, in a starred review, called it “touching, funny and tender. . . . Highly recommended for all collections.” Kirkus hailed it as “sweet and gripping,” Publishers Weekly as “warm, lively and immensely readable,” and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's reviewer pronounced it “the most satisfying novel I’ve read in many years.” Booksellers voted it a Book Sense “Notable Book,” and it was shortlisted for the 2006 Townsend Fiction Prize. Italian and Japanese editions are in the works, as is an audio version read by the author.

Thomas is currently working on her second novel, set in the north Georgia mountains, where she lives most of the year with her husband, Bill Osher.

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