Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe

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Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe Research Development Specialist University of North Texas

Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 22:53:55 EST

Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe

Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe was awarded a UNT Press contract for a book she's writing about her autistic son, Sam, who's now a 17-year-old Argyle High School student.

But his parents' excitement over their son's firsts apparently scared him and it was several months later before he would repeat the action, his mother, Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe said.

"We were so excited we scared him to death," Heinkel-Wolfe said.
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Heinkel-Wolfe, 44, won a book contract last week from the University of North Texas Press to publish a book about her son's first four years before doctors diagnosed him with autism.
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Heinkel-Wolfe is a Web marketing specialist for the UNT university relations office and formerly wrote for the Denton Record-Chronicle.

Her book, which she said is about two-thirds finished, describes the details of dealing with Sam's disorder before they knew what it was.

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But Heinkel-Wolfe won't use phrases like "what's wrong with Sam" when talking to friends and acquaintances about him.

"After all these years, I wouldn't have him any other way," she said.

"I think we were all born with this incredible capacity to love," she said.
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It's called provisional because Heinkel-Wolfe hasn't finished the book yet, and, like every book the university press publishes, it's subject to the approval of two external reviewers with expertise in that field and the university's faculty publishing board.

Under the provisional contract, which Heinkel-Wolfe expects to sign soon, she will finish the book within the next year, and she will earn about 10 percent royalties.

"I know I'm lucky, but now I'm scared to death," Heinkel-Wolfe said.
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In addition to the provisional book contract given to Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas awarded three cash prizes for essays during its recent Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writer's Conference of the Southwest.