Rebecca Donner
Writer and biographer
Rebecca Donner is a Canadian-born writer. Her biography All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days follows her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack in Berlin's resistance to Hitler.
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Born in Canada, Canada
About Rebecca Donner
Rebecca Donner was born in Canada and lived in Japan, Michigan, Virginia and California as a child. She has written two novels, Sunset Terrace and Burnout, and her articles and essays have appeared in Bookforum and the New York Times. She has also worked as a writing teacher at Columbia University, Barnard College and Wesleyan University. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is her third book, and it became a New York Times bestseller. It draws on letters, diaries, declassified intelligence files, survivor testimony and notes that were smuggled out of a Berlin prison. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN Award for Biography and the Chautauqua Prize. Donner was a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford and a 2023/24 Fellow at Harvard.