Author Bio
• Birth—July 7, 1965
• Where—London, England, UK
• Education—B.A., Oxford,; M.A., Columbia University
• Currently—lives in New York, New York
Zoe Heller was born in London and lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Everything You Know; What Was She Thinking? and The Believer.
Extras
Excerpts are from a 2003 Barnes & Noble interview:
• My very first job was as a milkman's assistant on an electric milk float in London. (This was in the days when British homeowners got their milk delivered to their front doorsteps. I was 14 at the time. It was an okay job, but the smell of stale milk tended to linger horribly on my clothes.
• I wish I could have been a jazz singer.
• I am extremely fond of manatees.
• When asked about what book influenced her most as a writer, here is her response:
Perhaps Middlemarch by George Eliot? I read it when I was 17 years old and at that time, it seemed to me to be the wisest, most truthful piece of fiction I'd ever read. Eliot's account of her heroine's life is remarkably unsentimental and grown-up. I also loved Eliot's stately, slow narration and her long, windy digressions. It was one of the first books that really made me want to be a writer. (Author bio and interview from Barnes & Noble)