Diane Fanning (born June 21, 1950) is an American crime writer and author who writes nonfiction and mystery novels.
She graduated from Perry Hall High School, and then Lynchburg College in Virginia, where she majored in chemistry.
Fanning worked for fundraising groups, including Another Way Texas Shares[2] and the National Association for Choice in Giving.
She is co-founder of Women in Crime Ink,[3] described by The Wall Street Journal as "a blog worth reading.
"[4] In 2002, Fanning corresponded with serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells, who, in a letter to her, confessed to murdering 10-year-old Joel Kirkpatrick, whose mother had been convicted of killing her son.