Education
Clare Hall; Columbia University.
Clare Hall; Columbia University.
In 2002–2003 he was the recipient of a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grant for his work on The violent life of Bruna Verissimo: An experimental ethnographic biography of a homeless Brazilian youth. His 2006 novel After Life: An Ethnographic Novel was based in part on that work. In 2005 Hecht placed second in the Hucha de Oro, Spain"s most important literary competition for short works of fiction.