Jack Heffron

Jack Heffron was a founding editor of the new Story magazine, which twice won the National Magazine Award for fiction, and he worked in book publishing for years as editorial director of Writer’s Digest Books, Story Press, Emmis Books, and Clerisy Press (now Adventure-Keen). As author and ghostwriter, he has published books on subjects ranging from sports to marketing to the paranormal. He’s best known for The Writer’s Idea Book, which has remained in print for more than 20 years and become a classic in the field of writing instruction. His short stories have been published in literary journals and twice have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize while his nonfiction has appeared in numerous magazines and been noted in Best American Travel Writing.