Zoë Heller is the author of
Everything You Know,
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003, and
The Believers. From her Q & A with Anna Metcalfe for the
Financial Times:
What book changed your life?
Middlemarch by George Eliot, which I read as a teenager. It filled me with excitement and ambition.
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What book do you wish you’d written?
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford.
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Can you remember the first novel you read?
John Updike’s Couples. I skim-read it for the dirty bits when I was nine.
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the complete Q & A.
--Marshal Zeringue
