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Discover five facts you may not know about the real Mona Lisa
Headlines
- "Mona Lisa: The woman everyone recognizes but no one knows" (Failure Magazine)
- "Go Away with...Dianne Hales" (Chicago Tribune)
- Blog of the Week: La Bella Lingua (Italy magazine)
- MONA LISA is one of Amazon's "Best Books of 2014" (Arts & Photography)
- MONA is a BBC Book of the Week!
- "Book Brahmin: Dianne Hales," Shelf Awareness
- The Life of Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, the (Most Likely) Real 'Mona Lisa' (The Daily Beast)
- Mona Lisa Mania: Our Bizarre Infatuation with That 'Happy Woman' (Biographile)
- 5 Things You Never Knew about Mona Lisa (Metro U.S.)
- The 10 Worst Things That Happened to Mona Lisa (Huffington Post)
- Tuscan Traveler's Picks—A New Book on the Life of Mona Lisa
- How Mona Lisa's Smile Led to Love Affairs and Suicides (New York Post)
- Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa in Florence (goitaly.about.com)
- Mona Lisa: Bay Area Author Finds the Woman Behind the Smile (L'Italo-Americano)
- Can Mona Lisa Rest in Peace? (Huffington Post)
- The Real Mona Lisa Turns 535 (Huffington Post)
- A CNN Summer Entertainment Guide best book
- One of USA Today's 30 "hottest titles this season"
- A Library Journal nonfiction top pick for August 2014
- Featured Alternate of the History Book Club, Book of the Month Club, BOMC2, Military Book Club, Scientific American Book Club, and Quality Paperback Book Club
Dianne's Official Bio
Dianne Hales is a widely published, award-winning freelance journalist. She has served as a contributing editor for Parade, Ladies Home Journal, Working Mother and American Health and has written for many national publications, including Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Health, Mademoiselle, McCall's, New York Times, Psychology Today, Readers' Digest, Redbook, Science Digest, Self, Seventeen, Washington Post, Woman's Day, and World Book.
Dianne's trade books (listed below) include La Bella Lingua, Think Thin, Be Thin, Just Like a Woman, Caring for the Mind and MONA LISA: A Life Discovered. She also is the author of the best-selling college health textbook, An Invitation to Health, and coauthor of An Invitation to Personal Change.
She has received writing awards from the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, an "EMMA" (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliff College, three "EDI" (Equality, Dignity, Independence) awards for print journalism from the National Easter Seal Society, the National Mature Media Award, Arthritis Foundation, California Psychiatric Society, CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity), Council for the Advancement of Scientific Education, and the New York City Public Library.
Dianne is married to Robert E. Hales, M.D., chair of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, and has one daughter, Julia. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Trade Books
MONA LISA: A Life Discovered, Simon & Schuster, 2014.
La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language, Broadway Books, 2009.
Think Thin, Be Thin, (with Doris Helmering) Broadway Books, 2005.
The Mind-Mood Pill Book, (with husband Robert E. Hales, M.D.), Bantam Books, 2000.
Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female, Bantam Books, 1999.
Caring for the Mind: The Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health, with Robert E. Hales, M.D., Bantam Books, 1996.
Intensive Caring: New Hope for High Risk Pregnancy, with Timothy Johnson, M.D., Crown Publishing Group, 1990.
Depression; Pregnancy; The Family (three volumes in The Encyclopedia of Health, Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.
How to Sleep like a Baby, Ballantine Books, 1987.
Case Histories, in The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs, Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.
The U.S. Army Total Fitness Program: Be All You Can Be, with Robert E. Hales, M.D., Crown Publishing Group, 1985.
New Hope for Problem Pregnancies, with Robert K. Creasy, M.D., Harper & Row, 1983.
Fitness after Fifty, with Herbert deVries, Ph.D., Charles Scribners Sons, 1982.
The Complete Book of Sleep, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1981.
Find more information on Dianne's trade books.
Textbooks
An Invitation to Health (twenty-five editions) and An Invitation to Health, Brief (eight editions), Wadsworth-Cengage Publishing, 1981-2015.
An Invitation to Personal Change, with Kenneth W. Christian, Ph.D., Wadsworth-Cengage Publishing, 2009.
An Invitation to Wellness, Wadsworth-Cengage Publishing, 2006.
Find more information on Dianne's textbooks.
Online Interviews
"World Thinkers and Leaders in their own Words," Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones
Five Questions for Dianne Hales, Tuscan Traveler
A Friendly Chat with Dianne Hales, Dante Learning
Italian Writers' Interview with Dianne Hales, Istituto Europeo
Downloads
Mona Lisa paperback press release (pdf)
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