Scott Heim (born 1966) is an American novelist from Hutchinson, Kansas, currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel, Mysterious Skin, was published in 1995.
The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.
He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.
I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case.
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.
Jordan Gavaris
Humpy Koneru
Sam Trammell
John Wesley Powell
Andre Previn
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Matt de la Pena
Ted Koppel
Jessa Crispin
Innocent of Alaska
Simon Schama
Thomas De Witt Talmage