Another book coming from Diana Pishner Walker

Diana Pishner Walker’s first book, “I Don’t Want to Sit in the Front Row Any More,” was a memoir based on the loss of her parents, Anna and Louis Pishner, within seven months of each other.

Diana Pishner Walker

It impressed her publishers – Headline Books -- enough to sign her for another book, a children’s tome titled “Spaghetti and Meatballs! My family is Italian!”

Says Diana: “The book is about growing up Italian. It should be ready by the start of summer.”

Diana is a 1977 graduate of Clarksburg Notre Dame High School and Fairmont State who works for the Marion County Board of Education.

She rode in the 26^th West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival parade in Clarksburg last August with author Betty Larosa (The “Creighton” family saga novels).

Clarksburg and Italians go together like spaghetti and meatballs, so the new book's title rings true.

I was introduced to Italian food almost as soon as I got off the bottle. My mother and grandparents were born in Mione and Pellizzano in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy. They came to America in 1920.

Diana and her husband’s children are Curt, Chris and Courtney. Her siblings are Anna Pishner Harsh and Stephano Pishner.