Scott Heim





Scott Heim

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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).

After living eleven years in New York, he rel...more


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Average rating: 4.00 · 4,065 ratings · 314 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
Mysterious Skin
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 3,396 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions
We Disappear
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
In Awe
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
The First Time I Heard Davi...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012
Saved from Drowning
4.46 of 5 stars 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993
The First Time I Heard Coct...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012
The First Time I Heard The ...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012
The First Time I Heard Joy ...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012
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“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.”
Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin

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

“He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.”
Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin

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