Covington-Carter, Diane

Diane Covington-Carter graduated with honors from UCLA and has received awards for her writing, photography and NPR commentaries.

She has been a life coach for more than thirty years, on a quest to discover the truth about the mysteries of happiness and love, both for herself and others.

Her May 2014 memoir, Reunion, La Reunion, Finding Gilbert tells a story that spans seven generations and chronicles how her father's stories of his time in France during World War II influenced and shaped her life.

One of the stories concerned Gilbert, a French orphan boy her father took under his win...