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	Zoë Heller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zoë Heller (born 1965) is a British journalist and novelist.
		Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of a German-Jewish immigrant who was also a successful screenwriter.
		Heller read English at St Anne's College, Oxford and then went on to Columbia University, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zo%C3%AB_Heller (172 words)

	Zoe Heller (Bold Type Magazine)
		Heller made her initial mark in her native England penning a weekly confessional for London's Sunday Times, a column that indiscreetly chronicled her misadventures as a single young woman living in New York and Los Angeles.
		It is her power of perception that sets Heller leagues above the norm; in Everything You Know, her debut novel, Heller uncannily captures the voice and frame of reference of her middle-aged male protagonist.
		Adding to her list of accomplishments, Heller recently gave birth to a baby girl, Francesca; in the January 2000 issue of Harper's Bazaar Heller describes her successful post-pregnancy shape-up routine, a departure from her usual writing topic of choice but a great inspiration nonetheless.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0100/heller (450 words)

	Heller condemns Mr. Know-it-all (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zoe Heller, who has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a writer for the New Yorker, is not a first-time journalist in the least.
		Heller's main character, whose graphic and candid opinions about sex, death, life and all sides of relationships frame him as a most offensive person.
		Heller artfully becomes her controversial character and articulates his personality in a very realistic and inquisitive fashion.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V139/N20/02-heller.20d.html (445 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Books : What Was She Thinking?
		The question Heller raises is not so much why more women teachers don't do this, as why more don't get caught - or even more interesting - why more don't get ratted out.
		Heller's wit is savagely cruel, yet deeply empathetic.
		Heller's master accomplishment is to force thoughtful readers to start turning the questions on themselves.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/090403/books.html (629 words)

	What Was She Thinking?, by Zoë Heller, Reading Group Guide, Henry Holt and Company Publishers of Quality Books
		"Zoe Heller's second novel takes an English school sex scandal involving salacious headlines and class consciousness and elevates it, with the aid of a self-deluding narrator and piercing observations, to a nuanced portrait of the power plays in unbalanced relationships.
		"Heller places her shots with a knowing subtlety, all the while skewering dunderheaded educational reform, the frenzy and foolishness of the media and all the gleeful, voyeuristic fuss about an act that -- given our intense longing for companionship and passion and our desperate attempts to escape loneliness -- is not all that shocking.
		Zoe Heller has imagined every corner of her compelling story--the impossible loves of teacher for student and of the evil, suffering narrator for her upper-middle-class friend and victim.
	www.henryholt.com /readingguides/whatwasshethinking.htm (2750 words)

	Bookreporter.com - WHAT WAS SHE THINKING? by Zoë Heller
		Heller, who wrote about Hollywood and celebrity culture in her lackluster debut, EVERYTHING YOU KNOW, finds inspiration for this novel in the 1997 case of Mary Kay Latourneau, a Washington State teacher who had an affair and two children with a teenage student.
		She intends Sheba's affair with the student to suggest a gender-switched LOLITA, and the relationship between the two teachers mirrors that of the protagonists in PALE FIRE: Barbara is Charles Kinbote to Sheba's John Shade.
		Heller plumbs remarkable depths in Barbara's isolation from the world and in her murky relationship with her coworker.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0805073337.asp (520 words)

	Bashing the Beautiful People / A jaded hack writer spares no one in this debut novelist's snappy social satire
		Zoe Heller's first novel, ``Everything You Know,'' is about beautiful people who are no longer beautiful -- from London's glitterati and hip squatter underground to aging Hollywood hustlers.
		Heller tackles a variety of literary forms in her novel: letters, journal entries, hack memoir, interior monologue, interview.
		Heller's spoof and critique of the pop memoir's ``sly rejiggings, petty avoidances, and self- flattering glosses'' is particularly apt.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/30/RV1510.DTL (939 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Review: Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
		Joanna Briscoe is enthralled and disturbed by Zoë Heller's psychological drama of sex and class, Notes on a Scandal
		Heller is a fine writer, fashioning her material with supreme confidence: the novel is funny, bleak, superbly structured, and full of the satisfyingly tight phrases that distinguish her journalism, but the fundamental point is somehow elusive.
		As her first novel, Everything You Know, showed, pathologically flawed protagonists are her forté, and the distortions of the unreliable narrator are intriguing; but Heller, for all her cold-eyed brilliance and psychological insights, has still to find her subject - has still to dig her pen deeper into everyday emotion.
	books.guardian.co.uk /bookerprize2003/story/0,13819,1019815,00.html (691 words)

	Salon Books \| "Everything You Know" by Zoë Heller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Willy once thrived as a well-regarded British TV journalist, but things fell apart for him after his wife, Oona, slipped and crushed her skull in the kitchen during a drunken argument.
		Heller, a well-known London journalist, has a sharp eye for detail (one of Willy's nurses "had a tide mark around her neck and a greyish mole on her left cheek, sprouting two long, reedy hairs -- like a cartoon desert island"), but she doesn't fall into Tom Wolfe
		Sadie is the more compelling character, but Heller returns to her story all too intermittently.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/01/24/heller (789 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 07/21/2004 : School Ties
		Sheba appeared in Heller's head after Mary Kay Letourneau, the 35-year-old married Seattle schoolteacher who was arrested and sentenced to prison in 1997 for having sex, and eventually two children, with a then 13-year-old.
		Heller knows something about the way society, especially the media, thrives on controversy: She got her start in journalism, a means to write and pay the bills.
		Based on her second novel's success, Heller must be right.
	www.citybeat.com /2004-07-21/books.shtml (790 words)

	Amazon.com: What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel: Books: Zoe Heller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Subtitled Notes on a Scandal, Heller's engrossing second novel (after Everything You Know) is actually the story of two inappropriate obsessions-one a consummated affair between a high school teacher and her student, the other a secret passion harbored by a dowdy spinster.
		The novel, Heller's second, is Barbara's supposedly objective "history" of the affair and its eventual discovery, written furtively while she and her friend are holed up in a borrowed house, waiting for Sheba's court date.
		In Zoe Heller's novel "What Was She Thinking?" Sheba Hart, a married pottery teacher in her 40s, begins her first teaching job at St.George's comprehensive school in London.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805073337?v=glance (2200 words)

	What Was She Thinking by Zoe Heller - read review
		I don't know if Zoe Heller decided to change the name because of the pop culture phrase that I hear used in the states, but I DO know that throughout this entire tale, I just kept exclaiming "What was she thinking?" in my own mind.
		And the pronoun used in the sentence (and the title), "she" was referring to different characters and the author herself.
		Zoe Heller hasn't brought this story to the conclusion that I had hoped for, but she has at least, posed the questions.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/heller.htm (947 words)

	What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] -- book review
		The book begins after Sheba has lost her job and family as a result of the affair, and seems on the brink of going to jail for sex with a minor..
		Heller’s novel skillfully balances the two key relationships – Sheba and student and Sheba and Barbara – so that both get equal weight.
		Less of a sexual predator than a naïve, confused woman, Sheba, in Heller’s hands, is a woman who embarks on the affair not for sex, but for fulfillment.
	www.curledup.com /whatwas.htm (476 words)

	NPR : Zoe Heller on a Joseph Roth Classic
		Zoe Heller was born in England in 1965.
		Roth relates all these misadventures, great and small, in a supple, quietly omniscient narrative, treating the fate of a servant's canary with the same rounded and compassionate voice that he uses to record the unprecedented horror of the World War I battlefield.
		NPR discussed Roth's achievements with Zoe Heller, author of What Was She Thinking and Everything You Know.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5552090 (1197 words)

	What Was She Thinking?, by Zoë Heller
		A complex psychological portrait framed as a wicked satire, it is by turns funny, poignant, and sinister.
		With it, Zoë Heller surpasses the promise of her critically acclaimed first novel, Everything You Know.
		Heller writes with a precision that stirs the blood and an uncommon insight into the darker sides of love." --Nuala O'Faolain
	www.henryholt.com /holt/whatwasshethinking.htm (340 words)

	Tingle Alley » Going straight to Heller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And as Kinbote is obsessed with his neighbor John Shade, Barbara is obsessed with her friend Sheba — and the obsession is tinged with similar homoerotic undercurrents, a same charged (& misguided) sense of connection.
		Heller is a good writer, and I’d be intrigued to know why she chose to steer clear of the most difficult but most interesting aspects of her own story.
		And for myself, I was amazed at how much Heller did make me believe that it was possible that this 41-year-old woman would sleep with a 15-year-old boy: The scene where he leads her into the trees at the park, and she goes, all self-deceiving but deep-down knowing what she’s going to do, is masterful.
	www.tinglealley.com /index.php?p=181 (1337 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Author feels the Booker effect
		As the Booker Prize approaches, the BBC News website talks to 2003 Booker nominee, Zoe Heller, whose novel Notes on a Scandal is being made into a film starring Dame Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.
		Although Heller believes there is something "irreducibly silly" about selecting a Booker winner from six titles, she feels the prize itself is valuable.
		Heller now has the added bonus of having two Oscar-winning actresses starring in the adaptation of her book, along with Love Actually star Bill Nighy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4242880.stm (672 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zoë Heller's sisters were surprised when she asked them to her wedding.
		Not because Ms Heller was hardly the marrying type.
		Nor because she was the prototypical girl-about-town, whose weekly dispatches from the front line of crazy single girldom helped to spawn a genre and a blizzard of spluttering letters to the Telegraph.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article310184.ece (280 words)

	Zoë Heller -Arts - British Council - Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zoë Heller presents and talks about her book Notes on a Scandal (Diario de un escándalo, Roca Editorial) at the British Council in Madrid and in Valencia.
		Zoë Heller writes with precision, with irony and without the aim of moralising.
		Zoë Heller was born in London in 1965, and was educated at the Universities of Oxford and of New York.
	www.britishcouncil.org /gr/spain-arts-events-zheller.htm (291 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Notes on a Scandal [Audiobook]: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them.
		It's an abuse of her very limited power--he is one of the few of her pupils interested in art, not interested in perpetually disrupting her lessons.
		Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/014180551X (1202 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Zoë Heller - Books: Meet the Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zoe Heller first made a name for herself as a journalist, interviewing celebrities for magazines like Harper's Bazaar and writing the "Zoe Heller's New York" column for London's Daily Telegraph.
		In our exclusive interview with Heller, we asked her if she had a book club, what it would be reading.
		Heller's broadly comic debut novel offers a glimpse into the life of an Englishman named Willy Muller, an anti-protagonist who is, according to The Los Angeles Times is "a first-class curmudgeon forced to get in touch with -- and atone for -- the true jerk within."
	barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=607248&...&ql=1 (302 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Just finished reading Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal, which I picked up because, I admit, the blurb featured some hyperbolic praise comparing the work to that of Amis or McEwan and the first chapter was compelling.
		Sheba needs her friend Barbara, of course, as a shield against the media hordes once her scandalous story breaks, but as Notes progresses it becomes clear that Barbara needs Sheba too, and Barbara's loneliness increasingly is revealed as a sort of sinister neediness.
		It's a real page-turner, and Heller's writing is incredibly fine, balancing between Barbara's astute observations of the world and of the things people hide in their own accounts of the world, while simultaneously hiding things from us.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3514444&postID=113569366625281387 (419 words)

	Notes on a Scandal -- Film 2005
		Now she is a mother and an acclaimed novelist with a film on the way; Zoe Heller's novel, listed for the Booker Prize, is now being filmed.
		Heller's surprise wedding in July might have been the final nail in the coffin of the Zo persona.
		Based on Zoe Heller's award-winning novel of the same name, the film will be helmed by Richard Eyre (IRIS, STAGE BEAUTY) from an adaptation penned by Patrick Marber (CLOSER).
	www.djdchronology.com /notesonascandal2005.htm (3203 words)

	UMass Amherst: Events > 5th Annual Juniper Literary Festival
		A yearly gathering of writers, editors, publishers, scholars, and readers, the Festival is dedicated to the exploration of issues vital to the literary arts through readings, addresses, and a book and journal fair.
		Authors’ Roundtable with Zoe Heller, Mark Ford, Simon Armitage, and James Wood; 8:00 p.m.
		Zoe Heller is the author of two novels, Everything You Know and the Booker Prize nominated, What Was She Thinking.
	www.umass.edu /umhome/events/articles/13515.php (446 words)

	Amazon.ca: What Was She Thinking : Notes On a Scandal: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them.
		Rather than take a hardcore expose approach to the story of a female teacher's forbidden affair with an underage male student, author Zoe Heller cleverly puts the voice of the story in the hands of a third party, a lonely older teacher Barbara Covett.
		The story telling device as a clever means of dealing with risque material is the same one used by Rikki Lee Travolta in the novel "My Fractured Life" where he chronicles the rise and fall of an ultimately suicidal actor from the prospective of the man who finds the body.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0805073337 (1376 words)

	30/04/03: One-Off Talk By Popular Athor, Zoe Heller - Dorset Fo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In a fantastic coup for Dorset, the popular New York-based author Zoe Heller, writer of fiction books and articles, will be visiting Swanage during her week-long stay in the UK.
		On Wednesday, 4th June, 2003 Zoe Heller will be talking about the writing process and how she writes at the Mowlem Community Room in Swanage from 2.30pm - 4.30pm.
		Zoe's first book ' Everything you know' was very well received by the public - being described as 'a book you should read'.
	www.dorsetforyou.com /index.jsp?articleid=3713 (571 words)

	What Was She Thinking? (0312421990) HELLER - Picador
		"Heller is a great ventriloquist of character, and as the unhinged curator of the Sheba affair, Barbara is painfully note-perfect.
		Zoe Heller's writing is intelligent, witty and compelling.
		Zoë Heller was born in London and lives in New York City.
	www.picadorusa.com /product/product.aspx?isbn=0312421990 (528 words)

	The Morning News - Birnbaum v. Zoe Heller, by Robert Birnbaum
		Zoe Heller continues to live in New York City with her family.
		Of this novel Edmund White has rhapsodized, “Zoe Heller has imagined every corner of her compelling story—the impossible loves of the teacher for the student and of the evil, suffering narrator for her upper middle class friend narrator for her upper middle class friend and victim.
		Whatever one thinks of such dust-jacket hyperbole and her place in the pantheon of British fiction, the conversation with Zoe Heller that follows shows a smart, funny, self-mocking, engaging irreverent mind that has turned its powers and serious attention to the arduous labors of novel writing.
	themorningnews.org /archives/personalities/birnbaum_v_zoe_heller.php (6108 words)

	Bold Type: Conversation with Zoe Heller
		It was never a particularly good column in that it's not writing that I look back on and say, "Hmm, fine prose, Heller." It was its own thing.
		Well, I don't in the sense that it paid me lots of money to do not very much work and to pursue other things for a long time, so I can't complain about it, and certainly no one's forcing me to do it.
		It gave me the very dangerous illusion that I wasn't really writing for a real audience, but was just sending these things off into the ether.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0100/heller/interview.html (2345 words)

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