Zoë Heller
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Zoë Heller (born July 7, 1965) is a British journalist and novelist.
Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of a German-Jewish immigrant, Lukas Heller, who was a successful screenwriter. Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport Campaign". Heller read English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and then went on to Columbia University, New York.
Heller then returned to London to work as a columnist. She is credited with being one of the first female 'confessional' writers. She now lives in New York City, writes for the Daily Telegraph, and contributes to The New Yorker and other magazines.
She has published two novels, Everything You Know (1999) and Notes on a Scandal (2003), which was one of six books shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003. Notes on a Scandal was made into a film in 2006. Her new book, The Believers, will be published in March 2008.
Zoë Heller now lives in New York with her husband, screenwriter Larry Konner, and their two daughters.
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- Jewish Chronicle, February 16, 2007, p.29: "Heller goes to Hollywood"
