Amy Hill Hearth

Amy Hill Hearth is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, historical novelist, New York Times bestselling author, and speaker. Ms. Hearth loves to share the wisdom she has learned firsthand from a diverse group of powerful, exceptional women.

Amy’s books include Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, an oral history-turned-Broadway-play about two centenarian sisters who were the daughters of a man born into slavery; ‘Strong Medicine’ Speaks, a rare oral history of a contemporary Native American matriarch; In a World Gone Mad, an oral history of a married pair of Holocaust survivors who worked for the Underground as spies in World War II; Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society and Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County, a pair of historical novels about a progressive, restless middle-aged wife and mother who upends life in a sleepy backwater town in Florida in the early 1960s; and Streetcar to Justice, the first biography of Elizabeth Jennings, the Rosa Parks of Old New York. Additionally, Ms. Hearth was the co-author of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s first book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters.