Zoë Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York. After writing book reviews for several newspapers she became a feature writer for the Independent and a columnist for the Sunday Times. She now writes for the Daily Telegraph, having been awarded the title “Columnist of the Year” for 2002. She has also been a contributor to several magazines.
As a novelist, before writing The Believers, she published Everything You Know (2000) and Notes on a Scandal (2003), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for fiction and was made into a feature film starring Cate Blanchett and Dame Judi Dench.
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Bethanne Patrick talks with Zoë Heller about her new book, The Believers, and her experience writing across cultures.
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The Book Maven's Top 10 Books of 2009
Choosing my Top Ten books of the year has been agonizing. I wish I had an office full of colleagues to argue with, but for this year at least the list is all my responsibility.
You'll note that many of these books appeared on The Book Studio in one way or another. For some, I conducted interviews with the authors; for others, I wrote reviews. That is not deliberate deck-stacking; it's a function of the fact that I try very hard to choose books that I believe will be strong -- but also books that intrigue me and that I want to read.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 8:30am A Conversation with Zoe Heller
Regular viewers of our videos may notice that this one looks a tiny bit different; due to schedules, we had to tape my interview with Zoe Heller out of our regular studio. I'm mentioning that right up front because it shows how badly I wanted to interview Heller, whose most recent novel "The Believers" was front-and-center at this year's DCJCC Jewish Literary Festival.
If you've never read Heller's work, you may have seen it on screen: "Notes on a Scandal" was an acclaimed film starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, adapted from Heller's "What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal."
Read more »Twitter Book Club: "The Believers" by Zoe Heller -- TONIGHT at 9 p.m. Eastern!
Get out your copies of "The Believers" and line up your questions, Twitter Book Club members -- tonight we'll be chatting with author Zoe Heller about her latest novel, and I know she's game since I interviewed her last week.
Who'd a thunk we'd be in Month Six of Twitter Book Club now? If you're reading this and you have no idea of what I am talking about, take a look at our info page -- it should make things fairly clear. If they're still not after you read that page, feel free to email me: thebookmaven at gmail dot com. If you've never been on Twitter, don't let that stop you from joining us! It's simple, free, and can be a lot of fun -- if you find it's no fun for you, you have no obligation to continue.
Read more »Literature Map
On the Literature Map, the closer two authors are located next to each other, the more likely that a person will like both of them. The map is experimental and based on the input of users. (We think it's kind of neat!)
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