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Rebecca Donner is a Canadian-born writer. She is the author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, which won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, and The Chautauqua Prize[1][2] She was a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford,[3] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship.[4] She is currently a 2023-2024 Fellow at Harvard.[5]
Rebecca Donner | |
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Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
Occupation | Writer |
Awards | National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2022) PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2022) Guggenheim Fellowship (2022) The Chautauqua Prize (2022) |
Donner was born in Canada, and during childhood lived in Japan, Michigan, Virginia, and California.[6][7] She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and MFA from Columbia University.[8][9] She taught writing at Wesleyan University.[10] She wrote “Sunset Terrace,” a novel set in Los Angeles, followed by “Burnout,” a graphic novel about ecoterrorism.[9]
In 2021, Donner published a biography, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, of her great-great-aunt, Mildred Harnack, an American who was part of the Nazi resistance in Germany and was executed in 1943 on Hitler's orders.[7][9][11] The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and The Chautauqua Prize[1][9][12][13][14][15] All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Plutarch Award,[16] and a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.[17] Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird praised the book as "a stunning literary achievement."[18][19]
Donner is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship. [20] She received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in the general nonfiction category.[21] In 2023, Donner was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford.[3] She is currently a 2023-2024 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[5]
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