Ursula Hegi (born May 23, 1946) is a German-born American writer.
She was born Ursula Koch in 1946 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that was heavily bombed during World War II.
[2] She moved to the United States in 1965, where she married (becoming Ursula Hegi) in 1967 and became a naturalized citizen the same year.
Hegi appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 8, and her publisher reprinted 1.5 million hardcover copies and 500,000 paperbacks.
[3] She won a book award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) in 1991 for Floating in My Mother's Palm.