Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist.
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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.[1][2][3] Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport Campaign". Her brother is screenwriter Bruno Heller. She attended Haverstock School in the same year as David Miliband. Heller studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and then went 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 also 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.[4] She currently lives in New York City.
She has also been involved in the film industry, co-writing the screenplay for the 1991 independent film, Twenty-One.
She has published three novels, Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2003), which was one of six books shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and made into a film in 2006, and The Believers (September 2008).
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.[5]
Zoë Heller now lives in New York with her two daughters.