Zoë Heller

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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.[1] Her father was a German Jewish immigrant and her mother was English and a Quaker.[2][3] Her paternal grandfather was the political philosopher Hermann Heller.[4] Her brother is screenwriter Bruno Heller. Her sister, Lucy Heller, is Chief Executive of education charity Ark[5] 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[6] 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.[1][7]

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.[6] 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.[6] She wrote for The New Yorker, a weekly column for The Sunday Times Magazine in the UK,[8] and was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, for which she won the British Press Awards' "Columnist of the Year" in 2002.[9] 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.[8]

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.[10]

Personal life

In 2006, she married screenwriter Lawrence Konner in a "minimally" Jewish ceremony;[11] the couple separated in 2010.[12] Heller lives in New York City with her two daughters, Lula and Frankie.[12]

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