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{{Short description|English journalist and novelist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{infobox person
| image = File:Zoë Heller English write D Shankbone adapted.tif
| caption = Heller in 2007
| birth_name = Zoë Kate Hinde Heller
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|7|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[St Pancras, London]], [[England]]
| occupation = Journalist, novelist
| children = 2
| relatives = [[Bruno Heller]] (brother)<br />[[Cordelia Edvardson]] (aunt)<br />[[Hermann Heller (legal scholar)|Hermann Heller]] (grandfather)
| education = [[St Anne's College, Oxford]]<br />[[Columbia University]] ([[Master of Arts|M.A.]])
| spouse = [[Lawrence Konner]] (separated)<ref name=TeleScandal />
| parents = [[Lukas Heller]]<br />Caroline Carter Heller
}}
'''Zoë Kate Hinde Heller''' (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist resident in New York City. She has published three novels, ''Everything You Know'' (1999), ''[[Notes on a Scandal]]'' (2003), and ''[[The Believers (novel)|The Believers]]'' (2008). ''Notes on a Scandal'' was shortlisted for the [[Booker Prize]] and was adapted for [[Notes on a Scandal (film)|a feature film]] in 2006.

==Biography==

===Early life===
Heller was born in [[St Pancras, London|St Pancras]], north [[London]], as the youngest of four children of Caroline ({{née|Carter}}) and [[Lukas Heller]], a successful screenwriter; her parents separated when she was five.<ref name="Timesprofile">{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/and-for-her-next-trick-perfection-ckc5m73n98g|title=And for her next trick, perfection, Profile: Zoe Heller|work=The Sunday Times|date=August 31, 2008|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref> Her father was a German Jewish immigrant and her mother was English and a [[Quakers|Quaker]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Nathan|first=John|url=https://www.thejc.com/life/two-giants-of-literature-and-one-big-question-byyarbup|title=Two giants of literature — and one big question|publisher=The Jewish Chronicle|date=24 June 2009|access-date=24 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/books/26zoe.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|first=Patricia|last=Cohen|title=Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller's Characters, but a Little Understanding|date=February 25, 2009|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref> Her paternal grandfather was the political philosopher [[Hermann Heller (legal scholar)|Hermann Heller]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=WEDDINGS; Miranda Cowley And Bruno Heller |work=[[The New York Times]]|date= June 20, 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/20/style/weddings-miranda-cowley-and-bruno-heller.html }}</ref> Her brother is screenwriter [[Bruno Heller]]. Her sister, [[Lucy Heller]], is Chief Executive of education charity [[Ark (charity)|Ark]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-events/ioe-public-debates/speakers/lucy-heller|title=Lucy Heller|website=ucl.ac.uk|date=26 July 2018 }}</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">{{cite news|last=Leith|first=Sam|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3560559/Zoe-Heller-Metamorphosis.html|title=Zoë Heller: Metamorphosis|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=September 13, 2008|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref> and then studied [[English studies|English]] at [[St Anne's College, Oxford]], gaining a first, before going on to [[Columbia University]], [[New York City|New York]] where she received an [[Master of Arts|MA]] on Marxist theories of literature and [[Jonathan Swift]].<ref name="Timesprofile" /><ref name="Vincent">{{cite news|last=Vincent|first=Sally|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/24/fiction.bookerprize2003|title=But seriously|work=The Guardian|date=May 24, 2003|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref>

===Career===
After a period at the UK publisher [[Chatto & Windus|Chatto]] and a spell as a freelance book reviewer, Heller was taken on as a staff feature writer for ''[[The Independent|The Independent on Sunday]]''.<ref name="LeithDT" /> She later returned to New York in the early 1990s contracted to write for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|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">{{cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/zoe-heller|title=Zoe Heller|publisher=[[British Council]]|access-date=20 March 2016}}</ref> and was a columnist for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', for which she won the [[British Press Awards]]' "Columnist of the Year" in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themorningnews.org/article/birnbaum-v.-zoe-heller|title=Zoe Heller|first=Robert|last=Birnbaum|work=[[The Morning News (online magazine)|The Morning News]]|date=29 July 2004|access-date=20 March 2016}}</ref> She co-wrote the screenplay for the independent film ''[[Twenty-One (1991 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 [[Notes on a Scandal (film)|a film]] in 2006, and ''[[The Believers (novel)|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>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html |title=Ox-Tales |publisher=Oxfam |access-date=4 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318100114/http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/books_oxtales.html |archive-date=March 18, 2012 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 2006, she married screenwriter [[Lawrence Konner]] in a "minimally" [[Jewish]] ceremony;<ref>{{cite news|last=McKay|first=Alastair|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/starinterviews/teacher-pupil-affairs-thats-not-the-real-scandal-7080021.html|title=Teacher-pupil affairs: That's not the real scandal|work=Evening Standard|date=January 22, 2007|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref> the couple separated in 2010.<ref name=TeleScandal>{{cite news|last=Eden|first=Richard|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8196416/Notes-on-a-Scandal-author-Zo-Heller-leaves-her-Hollywood-screenwriter-husband.html|title=Notes on a Scandal author Zoë Heller 'leaves her Hollywood screenwriter husband|work=The Sunday Telegraph|date=December 12, 2010|access-date=March 24, 2020}}</ref> Heller lives in New York City with her two daughters, Lula and Frankie.<ref name=TeleScandal />

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|375398|Zoë Heller}}
* [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/interviews/zo235-heller--i-loathe-myself-by-the-end-of-each-week-1702699.html "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.
* [http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=6ea3dfeb-a8a7-42b5-921d-54c6f84c791f Heller's Writings], tnr.com; accessed 31 January 2015.

===Video clips===
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BGnwg1Xu-I Interview] with [[Allan Gregg]] in Canada

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[[Category:Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni]]
[[Category:English columnists]]
[[Category:English people of German-Jewish descent]]
[[Category:21st-century English novelists]]
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[[Category:21st-century English women novelists]]
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