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Heidi Hackford

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in Buffalo, New York, The United States

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Historical Fiction

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Heidi Hackford was born near Buffalo, New York, where snowy childhood winters allowed her to feed her appetite for reading and writing. At Cornell University, she filled all her electives with history and creative writing classes. After a few years working and writing short stories for an arts magazine in Buffalo, she earned a PhD in American history from American University in Washington, DC. The compelling, quirky, and inspiring plot lines of history thread through her work as well as her outlook on life.

Heidi’s passion for sharing history with everyone led to a career in museums. After internships and assignments at the National Museum of American History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, she took a position editing the pa ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Heidi Hackford For short-term blockage, I go on a walk. That seems to jostle the brain cells. For longer-term blockage, I continue to read voraciously, go on many wa…moreFor short-term blockage, I go on a walk. That seems to jostle the brain cells. For longer-term blockage, I continue to read voraciously, go on many walks, and try to observe what is going on around me and what sparks my interest. Then I ask myself questions about what, exactly, I find interesting and why and follow where it leads.(less)

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Heidi Hackford I'm working on an upmarket novel called Folly Park that was inspired by working at Monticello and current events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Here's …moreI'm working on an upmarket novel called Folly Park that was inspired by working at Monticello and current events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Here's my tagline: The discovery that a Confederate general’s wife gave birth to a biracial baby convulses his hometown 150 years later, and his descendant must decide how far she’s willing to go to save his house—now a tourist attraction—in the shadow of her brother’s race-driven campaign for mayor.(less)

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Average rating: 4.17 · 48 ratings · 18 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

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What's In the Water?

My husband, Eric, in Lakeport, CA. June 2024.

On a recent trip to Oregon, my husband and I stopped in Lakeport, a charming 19th century town that looks like it has been frozen in time since the1950s. It was a sunny Saturday morning, and there was a vintage Volkswagen car show going on in the public park that lines the shore of Clear Lake. We had lunch with a view of people boating and fishing a