Diane English

Diane English is an American screenwriter, producer and director, best known for creating the television show Murphy Brown and writing and directing the 2008 feature film, The Women.

Early life

English was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Anne and Richard English, who was an electrical engineer. She graduated from Nardin Academy in Buffalo, New York, and then from Buffalo State College in 1970.

Television and film Career

English began her career at WNET, the PBS affiliate in New York City, working first as a story editor for The Theatre in America series, and then as associate director of TV Lab. From 1977 to 1980, she wrote a monthly column on television for Vogue magazine.

1980s

In 1980, she co-wrote PBS' The Lathe of Heaven, an adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's classic science fiction novel of the same name, and received her first Writers Guild Award Nomination. She followed that with the television movies Her Life as a Man for NBC (1984) and Classified Love for CBS (1986).

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Marianne Husted

The Citizens' Voice 19 Mar 2025
Smile, for we walked together for a while ... So, she decorated!!. She will be sadly missed by her husband, Ed Husted, and sons, Casey Husted and Timothy Husted, sister, Diane English and husband, Eugene, and friends, Mona Cook and Cathy White.

After the fires, starting from scratch in their 70s, 80s and 90s

The Los Angeles Times 15 Mar 2025
“We had to go buy underwear the first day,” said Diane Williams, 86, who lost her 100-year-old English Tudor home two months ago in the Eaton fire and is now furnishing a Pasadena apartment that’s serving as a temporary home.
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