Heather McGowan
Heather McGowan | |
|---|---|
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Occupation | Author |
| Notable work | Duchess of Nothing Schooling |
Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and Duchess of Nothing Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek,[1] The Detroit Free Press and The Hartford Courant.[2]
Education[edit]
McGowan has a master in fine arts from Brown University.[3]
Career[edit]
Heather McGowan’s original screenplay Tadpole was turned into a film directed by Gary Winick and starring Sigourney Weaver. The film won Best Director at Sundance Film Festival in 2002 and was subsequently released by Miramax.
In 2006, McGowan and British visual artist Liam Gillick collaborated to produce the limited edition book, Le Montrachet, published by Rocky Point Press in 2006.[4]
McGowan won the Rome Prize in Literature in 2011.[5] She was awarded the 2012 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize Fellowship for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin.
Selected publications[edit]
- Schooling, Doubleday/Faber UK, ISBN 978-0-385-50138-5[6][7][8][9]
- Duchess of Nothing, Bloomsbury/Faber UK, ISBN 978-1-59691-066-9[10][11][12][13]
Personal life[edit]
She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
References[edit]
- ^ "The Best Fiction of 2001". Newsweek. 19 December 2001. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
- ^ "2001's Best Books". AESC. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
- ^ "Heather McGowan". Alpha Book Publisher. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ^ "Rocky Point Press".
- ^ "Heather McGowan Bio, Rome Prize".
- ^ Giles, Jeff (2001-06-17). "You Need Some 'Schooling'". Newsweek. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ^ Marta Salij, "Reader will be rewarded by difficult beauty", World News July 1, 2001
- ^ 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Peter Boxall, 2006
- ^ "SCHOOLING by Heather McGowan". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ^ Mishan, Ligaya (2006-04-16). "Poppins Meets Plath". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ^ March 29, Missy Schwartz Updated; EST, 2006 at 05:00 AM. "Duchess of Nothing". EW.com. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity", Kathleen Seidel, Washington Post June 7, 2006
- ^ "Duchess of Nothing". The New Yorker. 2006-04-03. Retrieved 2022-08-04.