Each week, more than 1.6 million people listen to The Diane Rehm Show, which has grown from a small local morning call-in show on Washington's WAMU to one of public broadcasting's most popular programs. Rehm, an active Episcopalian and recipient of a 2007 honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Virginia Theological Seminary, broadcasts thoughtful and lively conversations with many of the most distinguished people of our times. Her keen curiosity ranges from topics like Iraq and the U.S. economy to the art of landscape design and James Joyce's Ulysses. Her guests have included former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, vice president Dick Cheney, secretary of state Colin Powell, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, V.S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, Annie Leibovitz, George Soros and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.

Rehm was raised in a traditional Christian Arab household. Her parents were immigrants from the Near East who had a grocery store in Washington, D.C. After a brief early marriage and divorce, she married John Rehm and raised two children. Then, in her thirties, as she found life as a housewife and mother pushing her into depression, she began volunteering at a small public radio station. As the story goes, during Rehm's first day of volunteering, she was asked to assist the station manager in the studio when a show host called in sick. Ten months later, she became an assistant producer, and six years later, she had her own show.

Diane has also forged a successful career as a writer and is the author of two books. In her memoir, Finding My Voice, Rehm tells the story of her life up through the 20th year of her broadcast career, including recounting her battle with a rare neurological disorder, spasmodic dysphonia (SD), a condition that threatened to end her broadcast career. She was off the air for months searching for a diagnosis and treatment. Together with her husband, she co-authored "Toward Commitment: A Dialogue about Marriage," a book about the art of building and maintaining a strong relationship.

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