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Alan J. Heavens: An Owner's Manual
 Since 1989, the real estate and home improvement writer of The Philadelphia Inquirer. |
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| All About Alan J. Heavens |
Experience:
1980 - present: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa. (Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC). Hired as a copy editor in July 1980, I began freelancing real estate and home improvement in 1989. I became the full-time real estate columnist in 1994. My articles and columns - On the House (Sundays), Cheatsheet and Your Place (alternate Fridays), and a weekly centerpiece for the real estate section - are distributed to 300 newspapers in North America on the McClatchy Tribune wire. I do an interactive Q&A on the Philly.com Web site.
1978-1980: The Hartford (Conn.) Courant. Copy editor and slot.
1977-1978: The Journal-News, Nyack, N.Y. (Gannett Westchester/Rockland). Copy editor, layout editor, features writer.
1972-1977: The Danbury (Conn.) News-Times (Dow Jones Ottaway). Suburban reporter, city reporter, copy editor, slot.
1967-1971: The Evening Sentinel, Ansonia, Conn. (Thomson Newspapers). Correspondent, summer intern, music columnist, reporter, copy editor, wire editor.
Additional experience:
2001-present: RealtyTimes, columnist.
2005-present: Temple University Real Estate Institute, instructor.
1998-2001: "The Gadgeteer," Home Matters, The Discovery Channel.
Freelance: Popular Science, Consumers Digest, Urban Land, National Real Estate Investor,
Woodshop News, Preservation News, St. Petersburg Times, The Jewish Exponent, Flight Line Times, other newspapers and magazines.
Author: What No One Ever Tells You About Renovating Your Home (Kaplan, 2005).
Radio: announcer, WOWW, Naugatuck, Conn.; WMBO, Auburn, N.Y., WSFW, Seneca Falls, N.Y.; WEOS-FM, Geneva, N.Y.
Education: B.A. degree, history, Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., 1972; M.A. degree, American history, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., 1985.
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My articles and columns appear regularly 
in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury, Ottawa Citizen, Raleigh News and Observer, San Diego Union-Tribune and more than 200 others.
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