Heather McGowan

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]

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.

• 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]

She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.