Rebecca Donner Explained

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)

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]

Biography

Donner was born in Canada, and during childhood lived in Japan, Michigan, Virginia, and California.[6] She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and MFA from Columbia University.[7] She taught writing at Wesleyan University.[8] She wrote “Sunset Terrace,” a novel set in Los Angeles, followed by “Burnout,” a graphic novel about ecoterrorism.

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.[9] [10] [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] [10] [12] [13] [14] All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Plutarch Award,[15] and a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.[16] Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird praised the book as "a stunning literary achievement."[17] [18]

Donner is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship. [19] She received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in the general nonfiction category.[20] In 2023, Donner was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford. She is currently a 2023-2024 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Awards and honors

Works

References

  1. Web site: Borgstrom . Megan . 2022-06-02 . Rebecca Donner’s ‘All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days’ Wins 2022 Chautauqua Prize . 2023-07-14 . Chautauqua Institution . en-US.
  2. Web site: Bio . 2022-05-24 . Rebecca Donner . en-US.
  3. Web site: Rebecca Donner . 2023-07-14 . oclw.web.ox.ac.uk . en.
  4. https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/18102908/Fellows-Oct-23_pdf.pdf
  5. Web site: Rebecca Donner . 2023-07-14 . Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University . en.
  6. Web site: Rebecca Donner . 2023-07-14 . www.goodreads.com.
  7. Web site: Alumna Rebecca Donner '01 Wins National Book Critics Circle Award . 2022-05-24 . Columbia - School of the Arts . en.
  8. Web site: Advanced Fiction Writing ENGL 146 . 2022-05-24 . owaprod-pub.wesleyan.edu.
  9. News: Patrick . Bethanne . How a novelist cracked the real-life story of her Nazi-fighting ancestor . 26 February 2023 . . 19 August 2021.
  11. News: Rebecca Donner Tells The Story Of Her Great-Great-Aunt, Executed For Nazi Resistance . en . NPR.org . 2022-05-24.
  12. Web site: 2022-03-15 . All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner: 2021 Biography Finalist . 2022-05-24 . . en-US.
  13. Web site: The National Book Critics Circle Award . 2022-05-24 . . en-US.
  14. Web site: 2020-06-09 . PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography . 2022-05-24 . PEN America . en.
  15. Web site: BIO Announces Plutarch Award Finalists . 2023-07-14 . PublishersWeekly.com . en.
  16. Web site: October 12, 2022. The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. October 12, 2022. CBC Books.
  17. Web site: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days. April 7, 2020. www.hachettebookgroup.com.
  18. Web site: Rebecca Donner’s ‘All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days’ Wins 2022 Chautauqua Prize. Megan. Borgstrom. June 2, 2022. Chautauqua Institution.
  19. https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/18102908/Fellows-Oct-23_pdf.pdf
  20. Web site: Rebecca Donner . 2022-05-24 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . en-US.
  21. Web site: Rebecca Donner . 2023-07-14 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... . en-US.
  22. Web site: Schaub . Michael . 2022-03-18 . Announcing the Winners of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards . 2023-07-14 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.
  23. Web site: 2022-02-28 . Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Winners . 2023-07-14 . PEN America . en.
  24. Web site: 2022-02-23 . Mariana Enriquez, Michael Connelly, S.A. Cosby among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists . 2023-07-14 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  25. Web site: The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction . 2023-07-14.
  26. Web site: The Plutarch Award . 2023-07-14 . Biographers International Organization . en.
  27. Web site: Saldarriaga . Nicole . 'All the Frequent Troubles of our Days' by Alumna Rebecca Donner '01 Coming in Early August . School of the Arts . columbia.edu . 26 February 2023 . July 14, 2021.
  28. News: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner . 26 February 2023 . publishersweekly.com.
  29. News: Klein . Julia M. . In World War II Berlin, a little-known story of German resistance . 26 February 2023 . . 3 August 2021 . en.
  30. Web site: Donner . Rebecca . Freeman . Jason . Large . David Clay . All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days . C-SPAN video . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . August 9, 2021.
  31. News: BURNOUT . 26 February 2023 . . June 1, 2008 . en.
  32. News: SUNSET TERRACE . 26 February 2023 . . May 21, 2003 . en.
  33. News: SUNSET TERRACE by Rebecca Donner . 26 February 2023 . publishersweekly.com.
  34. Web site: Aures . Kam . Rebecca Donner : Sunset Terrace : Book Review . mostlyfiction.com . 26 February 2023 . January 25, 2004.

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