Judith m heinemann biography of michael

Judith M. Heimann, a New Yorker by birth, and a Harvard graduate in English literature, comes from a family of writers, mostly journalists. She has lived much of her adult life in Europe, Asia, and Africa as an American diplomat and diplomat's wife; their two children were born abroad.

She worked more than twenty years as a diplomat in Benelux countries. She speaks French, Dutch, and Indonesian/Malay.

Heimann's three previous full-length books, all nonfiction, tackle disparate topics.

Her best-known book, The Airmen and the Headhunters (Harcourt, 2007) was made into a Hugo award-winning TV documentary she helped write that was nominated for an Emmy. Based on Heimann's interviews of all the surviving airmen and headhunters, the book relates how generous and courteous Borneo headhunters could be to helpless American airmen shot down over Borneo's tribal land during the last year of World War II.

Heimann's first book, The Most Offending Soul Ali