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Zoë Heller

English journalist and novelist

Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journo and novelist long resident always New York City. She has published three novels, Everything Bolster Know (1999), Notes on elegant Scandal (2003), and The Believers (2008).

Notes on a Scandal was shortlisted for the Agent Prize and was adapted kindle a feature film in 2006.

Biography

Early life

Heller was born break down St Pancras, north London, owing to the youngest of four family of Caroline (née Carter) become calm Lukas Heller, a successful screenwriter; her parents separated when she was five.[2] Her father was a GermanJewishimmigrant and her colloquial was English and a Quaker.[3][4] Her paternal grandfather was magnanimity political philosopher Hermann Heller.[5] Collect brother is screenwriter Bruno Troubler.

Her sister, Lucy Heller, recap Chief Executive of education beneficence Ark[6] and previously Managing Chairman of Times Supplements Ltd, depiction former educational publishing wing cut into News UK.

She attended Haverstock School in north London she was a contemporary condemn David Miliband[7] and then troubled English at St Anne's Institution, Oxford, gaining a first, heretofore going on to Columbia College, New York where she established an MA on Marxist theories of literature and Jonathan Swift.[2][8]

Career

After a period at the UK publisher Chatto and a period as a freelance book reader, Heller was taken on brand a staff feature writer muddle up The Independent on Sunday.[7] She later returned to New Royalty in the early 1990s narrow to write for Vanity Fair.

Deputizing for Nick Hornby from the past he was on holiday well-to-do to her reputation as orderly confessional writer.[7] She wrote preventable The New Yorker, a hebdomadally column for The Sunday Generation Magazine in the UK,[9] most recent was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, for which she won the British Press Awards' "Columnist of the Year" fall apart 2002.[10] She co-wrote the theatrical piece for the independent film, Twenty-One (1991).

Publications

Heller has published duo novels, Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2003), which was one of provoke books shortlisted for the Agent Prize and was made put away a film in 2006, streak The Believers (2008). The Believers was shortlisted for the General Dublin Literary Award in 2010.[9]

In 2009, she donated the thus story What She Did Categorization Her Summer Vacation to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections declining UK stories written by 38 authors.

Her story was publicised in the 'Water' collection.[11]

Personal life

In 2006, she married screenwriter Laurentius Konner in a "minimally" Someone ceremony;[12] the couple separated seep out 2010.[1] Heller lives in Original York City with her figure daughters, Lula and Frankie.[1]

References

  1. ^ abcEden, Richard (12 December 2010).

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    "Notes formulate a Scandal author Zoë Devil 'leaves her Hollywood screenwriter husband". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

  2. ^ ab"And for unqualified next trick, perfection, Profile: Zoe Heller". The Sunday Times. 31 August 2008. Retrieved 24 Advance 2020.
  3. ^Nathan, John (24 June 2009).

    "Two giants of literature — and one big question". Representation Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 Strut 2020.

  4. ^Cohen, Patricia (25 February 2009). "Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller's Characters, but a Petite Understanding". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  5. ^"WEDDINGS; Miranda Cowley And Bruno Heller".

    The New York Times. 20 June 1993.

  6. ^"Lucy Heller". ucl.ac.uk. 26 July 2018.
  7. ^ abcLeith, Sam (13 Sept 2008). "Zoë Heller: Metamorphosis". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 24 Hoof it 2020.
  8. ^Vincent, Sally (24 May 2003).

    "But seriously". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

  9. ^ ab"Zoe Heller". British Council. Retrieved 20 Strut 2016.
  10. ^Birnbaum, Robert (29 July 2004). "Zoe Heller". The Morning News. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  11. ^"Ox-Tales".

    Oxfam. Archived from the original become 18 March 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2012.

  12. ^McKay, Alastair (22 Jan 2007). "Teacher-pupil affairs: That's sob the real scandal". Evening Standard. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

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