Author Shanna Hogan, 38, dies from brain injury after drowning in pool in front of her 15-month-old son

AUTHOR Shanna Hogan has died aged 38 from a brain injury after drowning in a pool in front of her 15-month-old son.

The best-selling writer was swimming with Zander in their at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 28 when she lost her footing and hit her head, her obituary states.

Hogan's husband, Matt LaRussa, arrived home to find his wife submerged and unconscious in the pool, friend Kathleen Mayer told People magazine.

He reportedly performed CPR until she was rushed to hospital, where she remained in the intensive care unit for seven days.

However, the author passed away on Friday, her husband confirmed in a Facebook post.

"Tonight at 5 pm, I hugged, spoke, and kissed my beautiful wife Shanna Hogan for the last time by myself," he wrote.

LaRussa also confirmed that his wife will be donating her organs and that a letter he wrote to her was read "half way to surgery."

It read: "You are the light of my life and today I have to say goodbye to your physical body. Since the day we meet we were inseparable. To this day we had a love that anyone that knew us knew we would be together forever."

Mayer confirmed on a GoFundMe page that Hogan's "brain suffered too much damage."

The post concluded: "We will never forget the mark Shanna left on our lives and on this world."

Hogan was a New York Times best selling author and wrote numerous titles including Secrets of a Marine's Wife, The Stranger She Loved and Dancing with Death.

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