ANNE HECHE: BEYOND THE OBITUARY

Heche in Proof, which won a Tony Award

I wrote Anne Heche’s obituary for The Guardian. It went online on Monday, 15 August, and appeared in the paper the next day. I had written it on Thursday the 11th, but the paper held it until she was, finally, declared dead. As usual with these things, some of what I wrote was excised from the published version, and there were other thoughts I left out of what I wrote, either to save space or because they were not essential. When…