Heather Lende

Prize-winning author of If you Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name

Note to Book Clubs

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name continues to be popular with book clubs across the country and around the world. Heather has visited some, and interacted with many more via e-mail or speaker phone, if you'd like her to answer your book club's questions, please contact her, she's more than happy to.

"Part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott...NPR Commentator Heather Lende...subtly reminds readers to embrace each day, each opportunity, each life that touches our own and to note the beauty of it all.

-- Los Angeles Times

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Latest News:

Heather has won another Alaska Press Club award for her long running Anchorage Daily News column. The judge wrote: "Lovely, charming columns that show a real sense of place and community, and a sense of one's place in the world, and in life. A nice respite for readers."

Read Heather's recent interview at BellaOnline, The Voice of Women, with Kimi Ross.

Heather recently gave an interview to Deb Vanesse at her Alaskan authors blog, click to read it.

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name is in its sixth printing. Heather is working on a second book, about life in Haines and faith-- what we believe in but can't prove-- also for Algonquin Books.

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name was a finalist for the 2006 Willa Literary Award and was listed in the National Geographic Traveler Magazine Ultimate Travel Library selection.

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name is now available at most bookstores. Check with booksense.com to find the store nearest you and to learn more about good books and independent booksellers.

• Anchorage Daily News Columns
• Chilkat Valley News
• Haines Borough Public Library
• Haines Community Website

Made In Alaska

Heather Lende, Recipient of the 2006 AKLA Alaskana Award

The Alaskana award was established in the early 1994 by the Alaska Library Association to honor outstanding adult fiction and nonfiction works about Alaska.

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