Zoë Heller

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist long resident in New York City. She has published three novels, Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2003), and The Believers (2008). Notes on a Scandal was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was adapted for a feature film in 2006.

Biography

Early life

Heller was born in St Pancras, north London, as the youngest of four children of Caroline (Template:Née) and Lukas Heller, a successful screenwriter; her parents separated when she was five.<ref name="Timesprofile">Template:Cite news</ref> Her father was a German Jewish immigrant and her mother was English and a Quaker.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her paternal grandfather was the political philosopher Hermann Heller.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her brother is screenwriter Bruno Heller. Her sister, Lucy Heller, is Chief Executive of education charity Ark<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and previously Managing Director of Times Supplements Ltd, the former educational publishing wing of News UK.

She attended Haverstock School in north London where she was a contemporary of David Miliband<ref name="LeithDT">Template:Cite news</ref> and then studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford, gaining a first, before going on to Columbia University, New York where she received an MA on Marxist theories of literature and Jonathan Swift.<ref name="Timesprofile" /><ref name="Vincent">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

After a period at the UK publisher Chatto and a spell as a freelance book reviewer, Heller was taken on as a staff feature writer for The Independent on Sunday.<ref name="LeithDT" /> She later returned to New York in the early 1990s contracted to write for Vanity Fair. Deputizing for Nick Hornby while he was on holiday led to her reputation as a confessional writer.<ref name="LeithDT" /> She wrote for The New Yorker, a weekly column for The Sunday Times Magazine in the UK,<ref name="Council">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, for which she won the British Press Awards' "Columnist of the Year" in 2002.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She co-wrote the screenplay for the independent film, Twenty-One (1991).

Publications

Heller has published three novels, Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2003), which was one of six books shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was made into a film in 2006, and The Believers (2008). The Believers was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2010.<ref name="Council"/>

In 2009, she donated the short story What She Did On Her Summer Vacation to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the 'Water' collection.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

In 2006, she married screenwriter Lawrence Konner in a "minimally" Jewish ceremony;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the couple separated in 2010.<ref name=TeleScandal>Template:Cite news</ref> Heller lives in New York City with her two daughters, Lula and Frankie.<ref name=TeleScandal />

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• "Zoë Heller : 'I loathe myself by the end of each week'", independent.co.uk; accessed 31 January 2015.
• Jewish Chronicle, "Heller goes to Hollywood", 16 February 2007, p. 29.
• Heller's Writings, tnr.com; accessed 31 January 2015.

Video clips

• Interview with Allan Gregg in Canada