American · b. 1961
Miranda Cowley Heller spent decades in Hollywood—running drama development at HBO, overseeing early development of The Sopranos and Six Feet Under—before publishing her debut novel at sixty. The Paper Palace (2021) became an instant sensation: a story of one day at a Cape Cod summer house that unravels fifty years of secrets, sex, and family trauma. Born in New York in 1961, Heller grew up summering on Cape Cod, and the novel's sensory precision comes from a lifetime of those summers. She lives between New York and London.