Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan
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 Friends of the Museum, 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

McGowan’s original screenplay Tadpole , about a 15 year old boy's relationships with much older women, was made 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. ^{[4] [5]}

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. ^[6]

McGowan won the Rome Prize in Literature in 2011. ^[7] She was awarded the 2012 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize Fellowship for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin.

Selected publications

• Schooling, Doubleday/Faber UK, ISBN   978-0-385-50138-5 ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}
• Duchess of Nothing, Bloomsbury/Faber UK, ISBN   978-1-59691-066-9 ^{[12] [13] [14] [15]}
• Friends of the Museum, Washington Square Press, ISBN   978-1-668-03127-8 ^[16]

Personal life

She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

References

1. "The Best Fiction of 2001". Newsweek . 19 December 2001. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
2. "2001's Best Books". AESC. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
3. "Heather McGowan". Alpha Book Publisher. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
4. Guthmann, Edward (2002-01-19). "Coming of age at Sundance / "Tadpole" among breakout digital-video movies at Utah festival". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 2022-09-21.
5. "Miramax Films Acquires 'Tadpole' at Sundance". PR Newswire . Cision. January 15, 2002. Archived from the original on January 31, 2002. Retrieved June 27, 2019– via Yahoo.com.
6. "Rocky Point Press".
7. "Heather McGowan Bio, Rome Prize".
8. Giles, Jeff (2001-06-17). "You Need Some 'Schooling'". Newsweek. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
9. Marta Salij, "Reader will be rewarded by difficult beauty", World News July 1, 2001
10. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Peter Boxall, 2006
11. "SCHOOLING by Heather McGowan". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
12. Mishan, Ligaya (2006-04-16). "Poppins Meets Plath". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-08-04.
13. March 29, Missy Schwartz Updated; EST, 2006 at 05:00 AM. "Duchess of Nothing". EW.com. Archived from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-08-04.{{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
14. "A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity", Kathleen Seidel, Washington Post June 7, 2006
15. "Duchess of Nothing". The New Yorker. 2006-04-03. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
16. Pucci, Michael (2025-02-14). "Friends of the Museum". Library Journal. Retrieved 2025-04-27.