Author Heidi Durrow

Heidi Durrow

NYT Best-Selling Author

Heidi Durrow is the author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books), winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize founded by Barbara Kingsolver. She is a founder of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, an annual festival celebration stories of the Mixed experience. She has been featured as an expert on multiracial and multicultural issues and identity by the NBC Nightly News, the New York Times, CNN, the BBC, Ebony Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is an occasional contributor to National Public Radio.

Loving Day: The Founding Roots of Marriage Equality

Heidi Durrow

Government, Society & Culture

It was not the most romantic honeymoon story. On the morning of July 11, 1958, five weeks after getting married, Mildred Loving and her husband Richard were in bed at home in Central Point, Virginia when the...

With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There's a Likely Culprit

Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity

Why We’re in Such a Frenzy About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets

The Weight of the Presidency

Four Crises Facing the President and How History Can Help

Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists

Is the Era of In-Class Education Coming to an End?

Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars – And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life

Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination

UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson Sees the Future After Moore’s Law

Some Renewable Energy Types Promise a Bright Future. Others are Merely Sci-Fi Fantasy

Author Heidi Durrow

Heidi Durrow

Loving Day: The Founding Roots of Marriage Equality