English-born Diana McLellan made her bones as a Washington reporter, feature writer, magazine journalist, columnist, critic and editor. (Penney-Missouri Award, Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Front Page Awards for humor; Pulitzer nominee.) She spent ten years as a gossip columnist, "The Ear", for the Washington Star, Washington Post, and Washington Times. She is the author of "Ear On Washington," Arbor House, 1982, and :"The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood," St, Martin;s Press, 2000. She spent several years as Washington editor of Washingtonian Magazine, a Washington correspondent for the Ladies Home Journal, and feature writer for magazines of papers like the London Times, the London Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday, etc. She had a longago weekly spot on Maury Povich's innocent old Washington show, Panorama, and appeared regularly on the CBS Morning News with Charles Kuralt. She considers herself a slacker, but occasionally writes a book review. (Washington Post, Wall Street Journal.) She is married to historian Richard X. McLellan.