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 ...

Allentown native and author Deborah Heiligman is a finalist for a National Book Award, one of the nation’s pre-eminent writing prizes. A 1976 graduate of Allen High School, where she was co-editor of ...

Deborah Heiligman is the author of around 30 books for young readers, including the 2009 biography of Charles Darwin, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith, a National Book Award finalist, ...

Children’s book author Deborah Heiligman has been interested in religion since she was a teenager, majoring in religious studies in college. “When you look at a people and its religion, you’re looking ...

Deborah Heiligman 2010 Printz Awards speech Deborah Heiligman, author of CHARLES AND EMMA: THE DARWINS' LEAP OF FAITH, speaks at YALSA's 2010 Michael L. Printz Awards.

Vincent Van Gogh’s story is well known … to some degree. Our collective knowledge of the Van Gogh story is a mix of myth and truth — with the takeaway usually that he was a brilliant but crazy artist ...

On Jan. 29, 1839, in the little chapel in the English village of Maer, a religious 30-year-old woman named Emma Wedgwood put on a green silk dress and got married. She believed firmly in a heaven and ...

Deborah Heiligman, author of CHARLES AND EMMA: THE DARWINS’ LEAP OF FAITH, speaks at YALSA’s 2010 Michael L. Printz Awards.