Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Ursula Hegi

 

Source:  South Central Library System LINKcat online catalog

New York Times, 7/31/2026

Clay Risen reports:

Ms. Hegi (pronounced Heh-GHEE) was born in the western half of occupied Germany, just over a year after the end of the war. While she immigrated to the United States after high school and became an American citizen, her native country served as the wellspring for much of her writing. 

She was best known for a cycle of four novels that take place in the fictional German town of Burgdorf, starting with “Floating in My Mother’s Palm” (1990), a series of linked character studies that some reviewers compared to Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio.” 

Burgdorf, she wrote, was the sort of provincial locale where life “happened slower and later than in most other places.” The quartet of books, set during the first half of the 20th century, explored the ways in which the people of the town both acknowledge and ignore the dark passage of history around them.

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