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Diane Cardwell

Biography

Diane Cardwell

Diane Cardwell is an award-winning journalist who has covered a variety of subjects, including alternative energy, popular culture, politics, crime and New York's hospitality industry. A former reporter for the New York Times, she was among the inaugural writers of "Portraits of Grief," the Times' signature profiles of those killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center attack, and helped found Vibe magazine. She lives, gardens and surfs in Rockaway Beach, New York.

Diane Cardwell

Books by Diane Cardwell

Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life
by Diane Cardwell - Memoir, Nonfiction

Unmoored by a failed marriage and disconnected from her high-octane life in the city, Diane Cardwell finds herself staring at a small group of surfers coasting through mellow waves toward shore --- and senses something shift. ROCKAWAY is the story of one woman’s reinvention --- beginning with Cardwell taking the A Train to Rockaway, a neglected spit of land dangling off New York City into the Atlantic Ocean. She finds a teacher, buys a tiny bungalow, and throws herself headlong into learning the inner workings and rhythms of waves, and the muscle development and coordination needed to ride them. As Cardwell begins to find her balance in the water and out, superstorm Sandy hits, sending her into the maelstrom in search of safer ground.