Deborah Heiligman
Deborah Heiligman is the author of Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith, a National Book Award finalist, Printz Honor, LA Times Book Prize finalist, and the winner of the first YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award.
She has published 26 other books, most of them nonfiction, including the LRFO title, From Caterpillar to Butterfly; High Hopes: A Photobiography of John F. Kennedy; Honeybees; Babies: All You Need to Know and ten books in the National Geographic Celebrate Holidays Around the World series. She is also the author of Cool Dog, School Dog, and Fun Dog, Sun Dog loosely based on her Golden Retriever, Tinka.
Her picture book biography about a mathematician named Paul Erdos,The Boy Who Loved Math, will be published by Roaring Brook next year (she hopes). She is currently revising her first YA novel, Intentions, for Knopf, and the third Tinka book, and is researching a new YA nonfiction book for Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. This book will be laden with mystery and is, in fact, still very much a mystery to her.
Deborah writes a blog (except when she is too busy researching or writing) and frequently (perhaps too frequently?) tweets. She looks forward to ALA and the nonfiction book blast.
