Discipline: Literature – fiction

Zoe Heller

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Jenkintown, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

Zoe Heller is an English journalist and novelist. She has published three novels, Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2003), and The Believers (2008). Notes on a Scandal was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was made into a feature film in 2006. The Believers was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010. Heller began her career in journalism, as a feature writer for the Independent on Sunday in the UK. She later moved to New York to write for Vanity Fair and then The New Yorker. She 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" award in 2002. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 1991 independent film, Twenty-One. Heller is currently writing her fourth novel. 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.

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Zoe Heller worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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