Deborah Heiligman, Author . Holt $18.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8721-5
This rewarding biography of Charles Darwin investigates his marriage to his cousin Emma Wedgwood. Heiligman (the Holidays Around the World series) has good reason for this unusual approach: as deeply as they loved each other, Emma believed in God,...
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Deborah Heiligman, Author National Geographic Society $15.95 (31p) ISBN 978-1-4263-0453-8
Grade 3-5-This title portrays the diversity of Christmas celebrations around the world. After briefly touching on pre-Christian influences on this holiday, Heiligman establishes that much of the world celebrates Christmas to commemorate Jesus Christ'
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Deborah Heiligman. Knopf, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-86861-0
This witty but unsettling coming-of-age story from National Book Award–
finalist Heiligman (Charles and Emma) traces 15-year-old Rachel Greenberg’s fall from innocence after a series of betrayals leaves her angry and confused. Rachel’s life is in...
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Deborah Heiligman. Holt, $19.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9339-1
As teenagers, the Van Gogh brothers, Vincent and Theo, pledged to “be companions in the search for meaning in life and meaning in art.” In this intensive exploration of their turbulent lives, Heiligman (Charles and Emma) focuses on their complex...
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Deborah Heiligman, illus. by LeUyen Pham. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-59643-307-6
As a boy in Budapest, Paul Erdos (1913–1996) had problems to solve, but they didn’t involve math. Rules were a problem, and school was another: “Paul told Mama he didn’t want to go to school anymore. Not for 1 more day, for 0 days. He wished he...
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Deborah Heiligman, illus. by Lawrence Lee. Holt/Godwin, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62779-554-8
In this gripping account, Heiligman (Vincent and Theo) relates the September 1940 attack by a German submarine on the British passenger ship SS City of Benares, which killed 258 people, including 77 children. In unflinching detail, the book depicts...
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Deborah Heiligman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-2508-2307-6
The complexities and passions that characterized Jewish, Lithuanian-born writer and anarchist Emma Goldman (1869–1940) drive this comprehensive, thoroughly researched biography by Heiligman (Torpedoed). Goldman’s desire to fight against oppression...
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