Heather Lende

Prize-winning author of If you Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name

Planning a trip to Haines, or the rest of Alaska? See Heather's inside tips, along with other Alaskan notables on this Alaska travel association web site.

Note to Book Clubs

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name continues to be popular with book clubs across the country and around the world. Heather has visited some, and interacted with many more via e-mail or speaker phone, if you'd like her to answer your book club's questions, please contact her, she's more than happy to.

"Part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott...NPR Commentator Heather Lende...subtly reminds readers to embrace each day, each opportunity, each life that touches our own and to note the beauty of it all.

-- Los Angeles Times
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Through bugs, wind and wrecks, just keep on pedalin'

(06/27/09)

HAINES -- It rained last night and is still raining and that is a fine thing, because here in Southeast -- even the drier northern tip -- we are cloud-loving people. We get a little anxious when the sun shines too much. Also this rain is a good reason to take one more day off after the bike race and my calves are thanking me.

A week ago, the 17th annual Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay attracted about 1,100 cyclists, more than 200 eight, four, and two person teams and about 49 solo riders who made the 148-mile ride from Haines Junction, Yukon Territory, high up on the other side of the Chilkat Pass, south and down along the river to tidewater in Haines.

The race record is five hours and 55 minutes. This year the winners, a duo from Fairbanks, arrived on the Fort Seward Parade Grounds in six hours, 46 minutes and change. The slowest finishers were two 60-something guys from Alberta in about 12 and a half hours.

You can read the full story online at: http://www.adn.com/life/lende/story/845909.html?story_link=email_msg

Latest News:

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name is in its seventh printing. Heather is working on a second book, about life in Haines and faith-- what we believe in but can't prove-- also for Algonquin Books.

Heather has won another Alaska Press Club award for her long running Anchorage Daily News column. The judge wrote: "Lovely, charming columns that show a real sense of place and community, and a sense of one's place in the world, and in life. A nice respite for readers."

Read Heather's recent interview at BellaOnline, The Voice of Women, with Kimi Ross.

Heather recently gave an interview to Deb Vanesse at her Alaskan authors blog, click to read it.

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name was a finalist for the 2006 Willa Literary Award and was listed in the National Geographic Traveler Magazine Ultimate Travel Library selection.

• Anchorage Daily News Columns
• Chilkat Valley News
• Haines Borough Public Library
• Haines Community Website

Made In Alaska

Heather Lende, Recipient of the 2006 AKLA Alaskana Award

The Alaskana award was established in the early 1994 by the Alaska Library Association to honor outstanding adult fiction and nonfiction works about Alaska.

If you have questions about Haines or are planning a trip, please visit the Haines Visitor Center website.

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