Rebecca Donner

Rebecca Donner is the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, a deeply researched fusion of biography, espionage thriller, and scholarly detective story about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, an American graduate student who became a leader in Berlin’s underground resistance during Hitler’s regime. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN /Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and the Chautauqua Prize, and was shortlisted for the Plutarch Award. It was selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, and The Economist, and was serialized by BBC Radio 4. Rebecca Donner is a 2023/24 Fellow at Harvard, a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2018-19 Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Her other books include two critically acclaimed works of fiction. Visit her at http://rebeccadonner.com, on Twitter (@RRRDonner), Instagram (@RRRDonner), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/RebeccaDonnerAuthor).