- Zoë Heller
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Biography
Heller was born in North
London as the youngest of four children of 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 studied English atSt Anne's College, Oxford , and then went on toColumbia 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 three novels, "Everything You Know" (1999), "
Notes on a Scandal " (2003), which was one of six books shortlisted for theBooker Prize in 2003 and made into a film in 2006, and "The Believers" (September 2008).Zoë Heller now lives in New York with her husband, screenwriter Larry Konner, and their two daughters. Though their permanent residence is a flat in New York, Zoe Heller and her family have recently situated in Harbor Island of the Bahamas.
References
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Jewish Chronicle ", February 16, 2007, p.29: "Heller goes to Hollywood"External links
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