Waldorf alumnus Noah Heau ‘08 and his father Ernest Heau Waldorf alumnus Noah Heau ‘08 and his father Ernest Heau are the recent authors of a novel-length fantasy adventure for young teens called The Lost Rubies of Fennwann . The father-and-son team wrote the book together while Noah attended the Waldorf School of Garden City and self-published the 268-page book through iUniverse, Inc. in 2009.

“From kindergarten on, Waldorf students learn story telling and narration to communicate values,” said Noah’s father, Ernest Heau. “By completing their main lesson books in middle and high school, authoring becomes second nature, so it is not really a great leap from graduating from Waldorf to writing one’s own book.”

According to the iUniverse website, “Co-authors Ernest and Noah Heau story-telling career began when Noah was 4. Over the years they created many hand-written and hand-illustrated stories. The Lost Rubies of Fennwann is their first collaboration on a novel-length fantasy adventure. Ernest is a retired software engineer, and an editor of a book on Buddhism. Noah graduated from the Waldorf School of Garden City in 2008 and currently attends Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He plays the cello, keeps a journal, and is ‘interested in things surreal and ethereal.’”