Heather McGowan explained

Heather McGowan
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Brown University
Occupation:Author
Notable Works: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

McGowan has a master in fine arts from Brown University.[3]

Career

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

Personal life

She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

References

  1. Web site: The Best Fiction of 2001. Newsweek. 19 December 2001. 2022-04-24.
  2. Web site: 2001's Best Books. 2022-04-24. AESC. en.
  3. Web site: Heather McGowan . 2022-08-04 . Alpha Book Publisher . en.
  4. Web site: Rocky Point Press.
  5. Web site: Heather McGowan Bio, Rome Prize.
  6. Web site: Giles . Jeff . 2001-06-17 . You Need Some 'Schooling' . 2022-08-04 . Newsweek . en.
  7. Marta Salij, "Reader will be rewarded by difficult beauty", World News July 1, 2001
  8. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Peter Boxall, 2006
  9. Web site: SCHOOLING by Heather McGowan . 2022-08-04 . www.publishersweekly.com.
  10. News: Mishan . Ligaya . 2006-04-16 . Poppins Meets Plath . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-08-04 . 0362-4331.
  11. Web site: March 29 . Missy Schwartz Updated . EST . 2006 at 05:00 AM . Duchess of Nothing . 2022-08-04 . EW.com . en.
  12. "A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity", Kathleen Seidel, Washington Post June 7, 2006
  13. Web site: 2006-04-03 . Duchess of Nothing . 2022-08-04 . The New Yorker . en-US.

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