Dieker, Nicole: - Nicole Dieker is a writer, teacher, and musician. She is the author of the Larkin Day mystery series, the perzine WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT, and the definitely-not-autobiographical novel The Biographies of Ordinary People. Praise from Kirkus Reviews: "Dieker excels at depicting how real people think and act." Dieker lives in Quincy, Illinois with the great love of her life, his piano, and their garden.