D'Anne Burwell
D’Anne Burwell never would have suspected she’d become an award-winning author, and would have done anything to avoid the turmoil leading to such recognition. Winner of the 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Memoir, the First Horizon Award and Grand Prize Finalist, and the 2015 USA Best Book Award for Addiction & Recovery, D’Anne holds a Master’s degr....
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D’Anne Burwell never would have suspected she’d become an award-winning author, and would have done anything to avoid the turmoil leading to such recognition. Winner of the 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Memoir, the First Horizon Award and Grand Prize Finalist, and the 2015 USA Best Book Award for Addiction & Recovery, D’Anne holds a Master’s degree in education and advocates for families of addicts through radio commentaries, parent mentoring, speaking engagements, and her resource-and-information website, www.ASKforFamilyRecovery.com. Her commentaries have appeared on the Perspectives series on KQED, the San Francisco NPR station. She speaks frequently and works to organize community events aimed at raising awareness of the drug crisis. The mother of two young adults, D’Anne Burwell lives with her husband in Silicon Valley.