Heather Gudenkauf

Heather Gudenkauf is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Weight of Silence.

Heather was born in Wagner, South Dakota, the youngest of six children. At one month of age, her family returned to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota where her father was employed as a guidance counselor and her mother as a school nurse. At the age of three, her family moved to Iowa, where she grew up. Having been born with a profound unilateral hearing impairment (there were many evenings when Heather and her father made a trip to the bus barn to look around the school bus for her hearing aids that she often conveniently would forget on the seat beside her), Heather tended to use books as a retreat, would climb into the toy box that her father`s students from Rosebud made for the family with a pillow, blanket, and flashlight, close the lid, and escape the world around her. Heather became a voracious reader and the seed of becoming a writer was planted.

Heather Gudenkauf graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in elementary education, has spent the last eighteen years working with students of all ages and is currently a Literacy Coach, an educator who provides curricular and professional development support to teachers. The Weight of Silence is her first novel.

Heather lives in Dubuque, Iowa with her husband, three children, and a very spoiled German Shorthaired Pointer named Maxine. In her free time Heather enjoys spending time with her family, reading, hiking, and running. She is currently working on her second novel.

If you like Heather Gudenkauf you might also like to read books by Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain and Seré Prince Halverson

These Things Hidden Heather Gudenkauf March 2011 Book of the Month. Just as with Heather's debut novel These Things Hidden is a brilliantly written, edgy, emotional but harrowing story. It's the story of an innocent child caught up... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Weight of Silence Heather Gudenkauf Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 15 August 2010. April 2010 Debut of the Month. A tense tale of two 7-year old girls disappearing, it is believed together ….. but each,... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/04/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)