Ursula Hegi was born on May 26, 1946 in West Germany. She is now 69, living in the United States. She moved to the U.S. when she was 18, and she's been writing books from then on. She has written many fictions about Germany and she has written several of reviews for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Not only has she written those, but she has written many other fiction stories with plenty of awards. A perfect example of what she has written is names, Props For Faith. Ursula lived in Germany, and that's where the characters in the book live. She also lived in the exact same place in Germany, Düsseldorf. Ursula has also had 'friend' problems when she was at a younger age. She's learned to fix them as well as the friends in this well-written short story, Props For Faith. 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 then moved from Spokane to New York. Hegi's many awards include an NEA Fellowship and five PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards. She won a book award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association in 1991 for Floating in My Mother's Palm. She has also had two New York Times Notable Book mentions. She has written many book reviews for the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
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