Jean Hegland

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Jean Hegland
BornNovember 1956 (age 67)
Pullman, Washington, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Education Fairhaven College
Washington State University (BA)
Eastern Washington University (MA)
Website
jean-hegland.com

Jean Hegland (born November 1956) is an American novelist.

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Early life and education

She was born and raised in Pullman, Washington, near the Washington/Idaho state line. Her mother taught high school and college level English, and was the Pullman High School librarian for many years, and her father was a professor of English at Washington State University.

Hegland began college at Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington, and received her BA in Liberal Arts from Washington State University in 1979. In 1984, after working at a variety of jobs — from making stained glass windows for local businesses to housekeeping at a nursing home — she received a MA in Rhetoric and the Teaching of Composition from Eastern Washington University.

Novels

Hegland's first novel, Into the Forest, was first published as a paperback by the nonprofit press CALYX and later as a hardbound from Bantam Books, which purchased the rights from CALYX. [1] [2] Into the Forest is a coming-of-age story about the relationship between two sisters as the technologically dependent society they were born into disintegrates and they attempt to survive alone in the redwood forest of northern California. [3] Into the Forest was a New York Times Independent Bookstore bestseller, [4] and has been translated into eleven languages. A new French translation was issued by Gallmeister in 2017 to much acclaim. [5] A feature film adaptation of Into the Forest starring Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. [6]

Hegland's second novel, Windfalls (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2004, Washington Square Press 2005) explores the value of work, art and family ties, as well as the bond between women and their children. [7]

Hegland's most recent novel, Still Time, is about a Shakespearean scholar who falls victim to Alzheimer's and struggles to come to terms with his estranged daughter, using the only tools that remain within his reach—his understanding of and love for Shakespeare's late plays. [8] [9]

List of works

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References

  1. "Word of Mouth Speaks Volumes as Novel Goes National". SFGate. 6 May 1998.
  2. "A Path Cleared For 'Forest' / Hegland finally earns recognition, money". SFGate. 7 May 1998.
  3. Publishers Weekly http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-934971-49-2
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