When Heidi Durrow was eleven, she moved with her parents to Portland, Oregon, and for the first time in her life was asked, “What are you?” What people meant was: “Are you black or are you white?” ...

Trinity College Dublin has announced that one of Ireland's most important and ancient manuscripts, the Book of Durrow, is to go on loan to the British Library for a landmark international exhibition ...

There’s a reason many great social justice novels are written as historical fiction or contain elements of fantasy or allegory: This builds a certain crucial distance into their storytelling. Heidi W.

Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she's had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish mother. Her own ...

The public is invited to hear the author of "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky" speak at Bishop Dunne Catholic School as part of their annual Literary Festival. Heidi Durrow is the author of the young ...

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky caught my attention right away because it is about a biracial girl. I won a copy of the book by leaving a comment in June Goodwin's blog.The topic of biracialism is of ...

When Heidi Durrow gets sent articles from the Google Alert she set up for “mixed race families,” it's usually not very good news. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Before the Book of Kells, there was the Book of Durrow. This smaller, lesser-known manuscript is an exquisite piece of craftsmanship in its own right and is destined for the British Library as part of ...

Award-winning novelist Heidi Durrow, author of “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky,” is coming to Virginia City to raise money for the Storey County Library. Durrow’s book, published in 2010, won the ...