Jean hegland biography
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Jean Hegland
American novelist
Jean Hegland (born November 1956) is an American novelist.
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]&
