Media Hall of Fame - Andrew Heller

Andrew Heller, 1980, Journalism: Andrew Heller grew up reading Mike Royko, Lewis Grizzard and many other humor and political columnists, and decided early on that’s what he wanted to do for a living. His dream came true, serving as an enduringly popular columnist in Michigan for parts of four decades and publishing three collections of his work: “Come Heller High Water,” “Come Heller High Water II,” and “Saving the World One Column at a Time.” 

While in high school, Andy wrote his first column for The Escanaba Daily Press, his hometown paper in the Upper Peninsula. In the early ‘80s, he wrote columns and drew really bad editorial cartoons for CM Life at Central Michigan University. In 1987, he began writing for The Saginaw News. He wrote political and humor columns full-time for The Flint Journal from 1989 to 2009 and as a freelancer for MLive and The Flint Journal from 2009 to 2016. 

He’s won 20 awards for excellence from the Michigan Associated Press, the Michigan Press Association, the Detroit Press Club and the National Society of Newspaper columnists. He currently lives near Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is married to his lifelong love, the lovely yet formidable Marcia, who became a frequent character in his columns, which still annoys her to no end.