Zoë Heller
1965–
English journalist and novelist, born in London in 1965, the daughter of the screenwriter Lukas Heller. She read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and took a master’s degree at Columbia University. She wrote features and columns for The Independent on Sunday, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine and The Daily Telegraph, and was named Columnist of the Year at the 2002 British Press Awards. Her novels include Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal, filmed in 2006, and The Believers (2008). Notes on a Scandal was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.
Works
- Notes on a Scandal (2003)
Prizes
- Notes on a Scandal — The Booker Prize 2003: Shortlist, Longlist