Diana Harned, writing as D. Forrester Newhall, was born and raised in San Francisco. After graduating from Sarah Dix Hamlin School, she attended San Mateo College, majoring in English and History. She lived in Europe with her husband for fourteen years traveling extensively throughout Europe as well as Greece, Egypt, India, Nepal, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong. While living in England, she wrote a number of articles on Sighthounds, Coursing and Lure-Coursing, which were published in various English dog magazines and she trained, showed and hunted with Borzoi for almost forty years. She bel...