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Ursula Hegi

Ursula Hegi
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Ursula Hegi

Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories,... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. passion and balance
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My life in 8 words: "love write swim walk kayak read play teach"
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January 5, 2009
When I came to America as an eighteen-year old, my written English was quite good because I had studied English in School since...
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Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Floating in My Mother's Palm
Oct 23, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Salt Dancers
Oct 23, 2012
Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories is now available in eBook
Oct 01, 2012
Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories will be released on October 01, 2012 in eBook
Oct 01, 2012
Intrusions will be released on October 01, 2012 in eBook
Oct 01, 2012
Intrusions is now available in eBook
Oct 01, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Vision of Emma Blau
Aug 30, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Intrusions
Aug 02, 2012
Children and Fire will be released on May 08, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 08, 2012
Children and Fire is now available in Trade Paperback
May 08, 2012
Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set will be released on July 05, 2011 in eBook
Jul 05, 2011
Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set is now available in eBook
Jul 05, 2011
Hotel of the Saints is now available in eBook
May 24, 2011
Children and Fire is now available in Hardcover, eBook
May 24, 2011
Children and Fire will be released on May 24, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
May 24, 2011
Salt Dancers will be released on May 24, 2011 in eBook
May 24, 2011

Ursula Hegi Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. passion and balance Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. teaching Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be? A. as a 5-year old, i wanted to be invisible, hear and see everything Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. i like music by annie gallup, cheryl wheeler, miles davis, bobbie gentry// also 60s music Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. myself Learn more about Ursula Hegi

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Observer-Dispatch, March 20, 2013
...Vaddey Ratner. I have my own suggestions for complex lore and dialog, tales interwoven about war and books, Ursula Hegi's, Stones from the River, tells of the unlikely friendship between two girls, one German and one Jewish, their relationship and...
Chicago Tribune, January 28, 2013
...tour and lunch at the Burnham Hotel. Other books we have enjoyed are "Stones From the River" by Ursula Hegi, "My Antonia" by Willa Cather, "I Feel Bad About My Neck" by Nora Ephron, "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand and "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain. ...
East Hampton Star, January 10, 2013
...Jan. 28 to May 22 and cost about $1,800. The deadline to apply is Saturday. The courses: Ursula Hegi is offering Contemporary Literature by Immigrant Writers. Ms. Hegi, the author of 12 books, is now editing an anthology of just this type of fiction,...
Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2012
...and movies. Five books we loved: "No Ordinary Time" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Stones from the River" by Ursula Hegi, "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson, "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner, "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder. We love...
School Library Journal, October 2, 2012
...are reconnected. This is a good recommendation for readers who enjoy complex stories with dark undertones, such as Ursula Hegi’s Stones from the River (S & S, 1997).–Diane Colson, Palm Harbor Library, FL Related posts: Tags: Deni Bechard,...
Southampton Patch, July 26, 2012
...in the number of contributors over the last issue. Some notable written contributions Walker pointed out are novelist Ursula Hegi’s three poems on Alaska, Jen Senft’s short story “Prison Visit,” Albert Abonado’s poems “Three Colophons,”...
East Hampton Star, January 10, 2013
...Jan. 28 to May 22 and cost about $1,800. The deadline to apply is Saturday. The courses: Ursula Hegi is offering Contemporary Literature by Immigrant Writers. Ms. Hegi, the author of 12 books, is now editing an anthology of just this type of fiction,...
Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2012
...and movies. Five books we loved: "No Ordinary Time" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Stones from the River" by Ursula Hegi, "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson, "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner, "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder. We love...
School Library Journal, October 2, 2012
...are reconnected. This is a good recommendation for readers who enjoy complex stories with dark undertones, such as Ursula Hegi’s Stones from the River (S & S, 1997).–Diane Colson, Palm Harbor Library, FL Related posts: Tags: Deni Bechard,...
Psychology Today, September 25, 2012
...depth of your love - you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents. - Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River Search for a mental health professional near you. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are...
Jordan Times, September 3, 2012
...when they host Australia. In richly beautiful prose which reveals the full gamut of human situations and feelings, Ursula Hegi spins a tale of how the rise and fall of Nazism impacted on a small town in Germany. The fact that the story is told from the...
Jordan Times, September 3, 2012
...when they host Australia. In richly beautiful prose which reveals the full gamut of human situations and feelings, Ursula Hegi spins a tale of how the rise and fall of Nazism impacted on a small town in Germany. The fact that the story is told from the...
Jordan Times, September 3, 2012
...when they host Australia. In richly beautiful prose which reveals the full gamut of human situations and feelings, Ursula Hegi spins a tale of how the rise and fall of Nazism impacted on a small town in Germany. The fact that the story is told from the...