Heather McGowan
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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]
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.
