Jack & Diane Jack & Diane "Jack & Diane" is a 1982 hit rock song written and performed by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing as "John Cougar." It appears on Mellencamp's album "American Fool". It was chosen by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as one of the Songs of the Century. The single spent four weeks at number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1982, and is Mellencamp's most successful hit single. According to Mellencamp, "Jack & Diane" was based on the 1962 Tennessee Williams film "Sweet Bird of Youth". He said of recording the song: "'Jack & Diane'
Diane Setterfield PhD in 1993. Setterfield's PhD is on "autobiographical structures in André Gide's early fiction." Setterfield taught at numerous schools as well as privately before leaving academia in the late 1990s. Diane Setterfield's new novel, "Bellman & Black", was published in the autumn of 2013 by Emily Bestler Books/Atria in the United States and by Orion in the UK. Diane Setterfield currently lives in Oxford, England. Diane Setterfield Diane Setterfield (born 22 August 1964) is a British author whose 2006 debut novel, "The Thirteenth Tale", became a "New York Times" No. 1 best-seller. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with