Heishman, Rebecca

A fierce animal advocate, author Rebecca Heishman descended from two of Indiana's earliest pioneer families where she grew up on an historic pioneer farm in Corydon, Indiana. The family home was built of logs harvested from the land and hewn by her father's family; the deed to the farm written on sheepskin parchment and hand-signed by John Quincy Adams. She still lives with a sense of that history and honors the work ethic which was the hallmark of her family. Rebecca, or "Becky" as friends and acquaintances know her, studied creative writing at Indiana University Southeast and at the Universi...