Zoë Heller
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Heller in 2007
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Zoë Kate Hinde Heller 7 July 1965 St Pancras, London, England |
| Residence | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (M.A.) |
| Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Bruno Heller (brother) |
Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist. 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 made into a a feature film in 2006.
Heller was born in St Pancras, North London, as the youngest of four children of Caroline (née Carter) and Lukas Heller, a successful screenwriter. Her father was a German Jewish immigrant and her mother was English and a Quaker.
Her brother is screenwriter Bruno Heller. She attended and then studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford, before going on to Columbia University, New York where she received an MA in 1988.
Heller began her career in journalism, as a feature writer for the Independent on Sunday in the UK. She later returned to New York to write for Vanity Fair and then The New Yorker. She wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Times magazine in the UK, and was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, for which she won the British Press Awards' "Columnist of the Year" in 2002. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 1991 independent film, Twenty-One.
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