About

​Diane Sleger is a published author of historical non-fiction novels, with a focus on the Shadows to Sunshine series. She holds a B.S.W., an A.A.S. in Graphic Design, and a certificate in Web Design. Her digital designs include photomontages and book cover designs.

Volunteer:

Arizona Authors Association, since 2024.

Saguaro Chapter, NSDAR, member since 2021.

VIS Chair: Editor and Webmaster 2022-2025. 

Certificates: 

NSDAR DAR Library Outreach Committee for Outstanding Service, 2025.

ASDAR, Outstanding Service to the VIS Committee, 2025.

ASDAR, for writing an outstanding number of articles on American History /Battles of the American Revolution, 2025.

NSDAR VIS Committee for Outstanding Use of Technology, 2024.

Society of Mayflower Descendants of Arizona, since 2022.

Signal Hill Chapter, NSDAR, member 2017-2021, Assoc. member, since 2022.

Certificates: NSDAR, ILDAR, for Outstanding Service to the VIS Committee.

ILDAR/National Standing Committee/ State VIS Co-Chair of Website Compliance/2019-2021.​​

Diane is dedicated to sharing veterans’ military memories and honoring their service and heroism. With her interest in genealogy, she discovered her paternal 8th great-grandfather,  Lt. Thomas Leffingwell. By visiting the Leffingwell House Museum, originally the Leffingwell Tavern, in Norwich, CT.. The photomontage book cover is based on her numerous photographs.

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Shadows  to Sunshine, Our Leffingwell Line​​

​Shadows to Sunshine, Our Leffingwell Line, 24OCT2018 © Diane A Sleger. The text describes the ancestral lineage descending from Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell, detailing the soldiers' sacrifices in King Phillip’s War, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I and II, and Vietnam. References: ILDAR, NSDAR, Washington, DC,  the Leffingwell Museum, Norwich, CT., the Connecticut Historical Society, CT, and Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.

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