Her grandmother, Laura Goshorn Detzer, was the first public librarian in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
[2][3] Her uncle, Karl Detzer, was a screenwriter and an editor at Reader's Digest.
[4] Diane Detzer attended Barnard College, the Pennsylvania State University, and a secretarial school in Newtown, Connecticut.
[5] Books by Detzer (as Adam Lukens, Adam de Lukens, Jorge de Reyna, and Diane Detzer) included The Sea People (1959), Conquest of Life (1960), Sons of the Wolf (1961), The Glass Cage (1962), The World Within (1962), Alien World (1963), Eevalu (1963), The Return of the Starships (1968), and Planet of Fear (1968).
[7] In 2023, Critical Press Media obtained the rights to republish Detzer's Intergalactic League books under her real name, beginning with The Sea People.