Author Bio
Once an award-winning singer from the Midwest, Heidi studied producing, performing, directing, and writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was later commissioned by Francis Ford Coppola to write the screen adaptation of the best-selling novel, The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing. She has also worked as a columnist for a variety of national publications and is a business writer for dozens of Fortune and Global 500 companies. Heidi’s debut biography, Kid Carolina, will be published by Hachette Book Group in March of 2010. She lives in California with her husband and son.
Favorite authors/books:
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Normal Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
- Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath
- Virginia Wolf – To the Lighthouse
- Janet Malcolm – The Silent Woman
- Earnest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Dorothy Parker – A Star is Born (screenplay)
- Jane Austen – Sense & Sensibility
- Howard Hughes: The Untold Story: Peter Harry Brown & Pat H. Broeske
- Susan Orlean – The Orchid Thief
- Erik Larson – Devil in the White City
- Piri Thomas – Down These Mean Streets
- Bryan Burrough & John Helyar: Barbarians At the Gate
- John Berendt: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Suzanne Finstad: Natasha