Miranda Cowley Heller

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]

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]

• (2021) The Paper Palace. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-0-593-32982-5