Background
Hegi, Ursula was born on May 23, 1946 in W. Germany. Came to the United States, 1965. Naturalized, 1970.. Daughter of Heinrich and Johanna (Maas) Koch.
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Hegi, Ursula was born on May 23, 1946 in W. Germany. Came to the United States, 1965. Naturalized, 1970.. Daughter of Heinrich and Johanna (Maas) Koch.
She is currently an instructor in the Master of Fine Arts program at Stony Brook Southampton. In 1979, she graduated from the University of New Hampshire with both a bachelor"s and master"s degree.
Her perception growing up was that the war was avoided as a topic of discussion despite its evidence everywhere, and The Holocaust was a particularly taboo topic. This had a strong effect on her later writing and her feelings about her German identity. She left West Germany in 1964, at the age of 18.
The same year, she was hired at Eastern Washington University, in Cheney, Washington, near Spokane, Washington, where she became an Associate Professor and taught creative writing and contemporary literature.
Hegi"s first books were set in the United States. She set her third, Floating in My Mother"s Palm, in the fictional German town of "Burgdorf," using her writing to explore her conflicted feelings about her German heritage.
She used the setting for three more books, including her best selling novel Stones from the River, which was chosen for Oprah"s Book Club in 1997. Hegi appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 8, and her publisher reprinted 1.5 million hardcover copies and 500,000 paperbacks.
She subsequently moved from Spokane to New New York
Hegi"s many awards include an National Education Association Fellowship and five Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Syndicated Fiction Awards. She has also had two New York Times Notable Book mentions. She has written many book reviews for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
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Married 1967; children: Eric Hegi, Adam Hegi. Life partner Gordon Gagliano.