Miranda Cowley Heller

Miranda Phillips Cowley Heller (born in 1962) is an American writer, novelist, and TV developer. She is known for her debut novel, The Paper Palace, published in 2021.

Personal life Cowley Heller grew up in New York in a literary and artistic family. She is a graduate of Harvard University. Cowley Heller was accepted into a PhD program in art history at UCLA but turned it down to move with her husband, Bruno Heller, a British TV screenwriter, for his job. While at HBO, she worked on hit shows such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Big Love, and Deadwood. She worked both as a ghostwriter and a screenwriting editor. Thirty international editions of the book have been published.

The book rights were purchased by HBO, which plans to develop it into a mini-series with Cowley Heller developing the screenplay.

Published works

(2021) The Paper Palace. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-0-593-32982-5 (2025) What the Deep Water Knows: Penguin ISBN 978-1405975261