Miranda Cowley Heller

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Miranda Cowley Heller
Born1962
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Harvard University
Notable work"The Paper Palace" (2021)
Spouse Bruno Heller

Miranda Phillips Cowley Heller (born in 1962) [1] is an American writer, novelist, and TV developer. She is known for her debut novel, The Paper Palace , which was published in 2021 to acclaim.

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Personal life

Cowley Heller grew up in New York in a literary and artistic family. [1] Her grandfather, Malcolm Cowley, was a renowned poet and critic, her aunt Hayden Herrera is an art historian and biographer, and her sister-in-law Zoë Heller is also a writer. [1] [2] [3] She is a graduate of Harvard University. [4] Cowley Heller was accepted into a PhD program in art history at UCLA but turned it down to move with her husband, Bruno Heller, a British TV screenwriter, for his job. [4] She currently splits time living in London, Los Angeles, and Cape Cod. [5] [4]

Career

Cowley Heller has had a prolific career across books, magazines, and TV. [1] She began her career at Cosmopolitan magazine where she worked as a fiction and books editor. [1] [4] [3] She spent a decade as head of drama series at HBO in the early 2000s. [6] While at HBO, she worked on hit shows such as The Sopranos , The Wire, Six Feet Under , Big Love , and Deadwood. [4] [7] As a writer, she has worked both as a ghostwriter and a screenwriting editor. [6] In 2021, she published her own debut novel, The Paper Palace. [1]

TV

In 1997, Cowley Heller moved to LA to begin her job at HBO. [3] She spent nearly a decade working there as senior vice president and head of drama series. [1] [6] She began at HBO before a drama series department existed, and she led with a "writer-led" approach to TV development. [4]

The Paper Palace

In 2021, Cowley published her debut novel, The Paper Palace. [8] [4] [7] According to the review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received positive reviews from critics. [9] It was a #1 New York Times' Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick, and longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. [10] [11] [12] [3] Thirty international editions of the book have also been published. [3]

The book rights were purchased by HBO, which has plans to develop it into a mini-series with Cowley Heller developing the screenplay. [4]

Published works

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