BARBARA HELLER

Barbara Heller was inspired to create the letters in Pride and Prejudice (Chronicle Books, 2020) and Little Women (Chronicle, fall 2021) by her own desire to hold those letters in her hands. Her career in film and television encompasses finding furnishings and props for many shows including The Americans and When They See Us; location managing films for Francis Coppola, Nancy Meyers, and Barbet Schroeder; and directing award-winning short films that have played at festivals around the world (Cannes, Berlin, Sundance). To satisfy her curiosity, Barbara reported on why hotels fold the end of the toilet paper into a point for NPR. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in English Literature and lives with her son in New York City. She is deep in the process of giving “the letter treatment” to Persuasion (Chronicle, fall 2022.)