mail	1202-168 Chadwick Court North Vancouver, BC V7M3L4
ph	604-983-2202
e	jamesheneghan@hotmail.com
web	www.jamesheneghan.com

Biography

James Heneghan, an Anglo/Irish Canadian came to Vancouver, BC from Liverpool, England and worked for many years as a Fingerprint & Photography Technician in the Vancouver Police Crime Laboratory. He has four children and two grandchildren. He has been writing books for young people for over twenty years. Many of his books are award winners (three-time winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Award) and appear on the American Library Association’s lists of Best Books for Young Adults, the New York Library lists of Best Books, the Junior Library Guild list, the VOYA Top Shelf Pick list. Wish Me Luck was nominated for a Governor General’s Award.
Further information on James Heneghan may be found at www.jamesheneghan.com

Book types: juvenile fiction, YA fiction

Guest speaker/presentation information

Readings, book talks, lectures.

Presentation geographic range: Canada - beyond BC, USA

Presentation audience age groups: grades 7-8, high school, college/university/adult

Published work

Payback... Groundwood, 2007
Safe House... Orca, 2006
Hit Squad… Orca, 2003.
Waiting for Sarah… (with Bruce McBay) Orca, 2003.
Flood. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 and Groundwood.
The Grave… Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 and Groundwood.
Promises to Come… Kits House Publishing.
Wish Me Luck… Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
Torn Away… Viking, New York, 1994, and Orca Books
The Case of the Blue Raccoon, 1996… Scholastic Canada.
The Mystery of the Gold Ring… Scholastic Canada, 1995.
The Trail of the Chocolate Thief… Scholastic Canada, 1993.
The Case of the Marmalade Cat… Scholastic Canada, 1992
Blue… Scholastic Canada, 1992.
Goodbye, Carleton High… by B. J. Bond (James Heneghan with Bruce McBay) Scholastic Canada, 1983
Puffin Rock… (with Bruce McBay) Book Society, Canada, 1980.

Awards & recognition

Sheila Egoff Awards (3)
Chocolate Lily Award
MYCRA Award
Arthur Ellis Crimewriting Award