Scott Heim





Scott Heim

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Hutchinson, Kansas, The United States

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Scott Heim was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1966. He grew up in a small farming community there, and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, earning a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in Writing at Columbia University, where he wrote his first novel, Mysterious Skin. HarperCollins published that book in 1995, and Scott followed it with another novel, In Awe, in 1997.

Scott has won fellowships to the London Arts Board as their International Writer-in-Residence, and to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab for his adaptation of Mysterious Skin. He is also the author of a book of poems, Saved From Drowning (1993).

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Average rating: 3.96 · 2,433 ratings · 231 reviews · 5 distinct works
Mysterious Skin
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,958 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions
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We Disappear
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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In Awe
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Saved from Drowning
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996
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“Somewhere, in some shadowy bedroom of a leaf-strewn town, a father bolts the door to a child's room, then steps closer to the bed. In a neighbor's garden lurks a weed with a funny, blade-petaled flower, its poison choking the red roses. Somewhere a car is crashing; a phone is ringing in the center of night. The spider waits poised in the slipper. The bird swoops headlong into glass it thought was farther air. The strangler envisions a neighborhood of throats. The head finds the noose; the foot kicks the chair.”
Scott Heim, We Disappear

“The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.”
Scott Heim, We Disappear

“A woman gasped. Through the open door I could see a sliver of carolers, some faces peering inside at the scattered tatters of money, some faces turned to the sky and the snow, now beginning to fall. And there, in front of them, in the room with us, stood the family, their outlines barely visible within the weight of the rooms light. It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels basking in it. But it wasn’t and we weren’t.”
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