Diane Merrill WiggintonDiane Merrill Wigginton was born in 1963, in Riverside, California and moved to San Diego when she was eight years old. She enjoyed spending her summers in Burley, Idaho, with her mother's parents, Florence and Orval Merrill, and it was during her tie on the farm, riding horses, herding cattle and taming the wild kittens born in the haystacks every year, that Diane developed a love of storytelling and dreamed that one day she would tell her stories to others. Read More Read Less