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Heidi Wedel Durrow
BornHeidi Wedel Durrow
Pen nameHeidi W. Durrow
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Yale Law School

Heidi W. Durrow, born June 21, 1969, is an American writer and author of the best-seller[1] The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction.[2][3]

Biography

Early life and education

Durrow, the daughter of a white Danish immigrant and an African-American man, grew up in part in Turkey, Germany and Denmark. She majored in English at Stanford University and wrote a weekly column for the Stanford Daily, graduating in 1991 with Honors. She continued her education at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and received an M.S. in 1992. She then attended Yale Law School and received her J.D. in 1995.

Career

Durrow's career began as a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She has also worked as life skills trainer for professional athletes of the NFL and NBA.

Durrow was a host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat focused on issues of being racially and culturally mixed.[4]

Durrow created a new festival called the Mixed Remixed Festival which premiered June 14, 2014.[5]

Durrow was named a Power 100 Leader by Ebony Magazine in 2010 and was nominated for a 2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.

She currently heads the non-profit organization, Mixed Remixed, Inc. She is working on her second novel.

Published works

Awards

References

  1. ^ The book is described as a best seller by New Yorker magazine, here, accessed December 9th 2014.
  2. ^ From the Heidi Durrow author website, accessible here, accessed December 9th, 2014.
  3. ^ Details on the PEN/Bellwether Prize are available here, accessed December 9th 2014.
  4. ^ “Obama Raises Profile of Mixed race Americans”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2008, Tyche Hendricks.
  5. ^ http://www.mixedremixed.org/about-mixed-remixed/
  6. ^ The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books, February 2010).

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