Heidi W. Durrow (born June 21, 1969) is an American writer, author of best-seller[1] The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.
[2][3] Durrow, the daughter of a Danish immigrant and an African-American Air Force man, grew up in part overseas in Turkey, Germany, and Denmark.
Durrow's career began at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where she worked as a corporate litigator on antitrust, commercial contracts, and employment discrimination cases.
[9] Durrow was named a Power 100 Leader by Ebony Magazine in 2010 and was nominated for a 2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut.
The book won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (2008)[10] and was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Author (2010)[11] and Carnegie Medal (2011).