Zoë Heller

Career After a period at the UK publisher Chatto and a spell as a freelance book reviewer, Heller was taken on as a staff feature writer for The Independent on Sunday. and was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, for which she won the British Press Awards' "Columnist of the Year" in 2002. She co-wrote the screenplay for the independent film Twenty-One (1991).

Publications Heller has published three novels: Everything You Know (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2003), which was one of six books shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was made into a film in 2006, and The Believers (2008). The Believers was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2010.

Personal life In 2006, she married screenwriter Lawrence Konner in a "minimally" Jewish ceremony; the couple separated in 2010. Heller lives in New York City with her two daughters, Lula and Frankie.