Heather McGowan

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Heather McGowan
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American

Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling[1] and The Duchess of Nothing.[2] According to her publisher Bloomsbury USA, Schooling was named Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, the Detroit Free Press, and the Hartford Courant.[3] She also co-wrote the screenplay for Tadpole. McGowan received an MFA from Brown University.[4] She lives in Brooklyn, New York.[5] Heather McGowan is awarded the 2012 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize Fellowship for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin.

References

  1. ↑ Eric Weinberger (June 24, 2001). "School Daze". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-11-04. 
  2. ↑ Ligaya Mishan (April 15, 2006). "Poppins Meets Plath". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-11-04. 
  3. ↑ Duchess of Nothing page on Bloomsbury USA website
  4. ↑ Hillary Rosner (May 2001). "Writers on the Verge: Our Spotlight on Up-and-Coming Authors". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2007-11-04. 
  5. ↑ Hirsh Sawhney (February 2006). "Prose Culture: Heather McGowan, Duchess of Nothing (Bloomsbury March 2006)". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2007-11-04. 


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