Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York.
She is a journalist who, after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature writer for The Independent. She wrote a weekly confessional column for the Sunday Times for four years, but now writes for the Daily Telegraph and earned the title ‘Columnist of the Year’ in 2002.

She is the author of three novels: Everything You Know (2000), a dark comedy about misanthropic writer Willy Miller; Notes on a Scandal (2003) which tells the story of an affair between a high school teacher and her student through the eyes of the teacher’s supposed friend, Barbara Covett; and The Believers (2008), shortlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Notes on a Scandal was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for fiction, and released as a feature film, starring Cate Blanchett and Dame Judi Dench.

Zoe Heller lives in New York. (From https://literature.britishcouncil.org)