In 2002–2003 he was the recipient of a
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grant for his work on The violent life of Bruna Verissimo: An experimental ethnographic biography of a homeless Brazilian youth.[3] His 2006 novel After Life: An Ethnographic Novel was based in part on that work.[4]
In 2005 Hecht placed second in the
Hucha de Oro, Spain's most important literary competition for short works of fiction.[5] He taught at
Pomona College.[6]
"La sexta columna" in Yardbird y otros cuentos : Concurso de Cuentos de las Cajas de Ahorros, XXXIII Convocatoria Hucha de Oro, octubre 2005, April 2006.
El cerdito pulcro also entitled The Remarkably Clean Life of a Little Pig, a bilingual edition with illustrations by Cristina Perez Navarro,
Ecologistas en Accion, (Madrid, Spain), October 2016.
ISBN978-84-944051-8-1
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