Radcliffe Magazine published a profile about Rebecca Donner. Read the article here.
Rebecca Donner will be a 2023-2024 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard.
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The French translation of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, published under the title Mildred, is a finalist for the Grand Prix des Lectrices 2023.
The Guardian reviews All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days. “Donner’s American great-great-aunt, Mildred Harnack, moved to Germany in the late 1920s. Appalled by the rise of nazism, Mildred and her German husband embarked on a decade-long resistance campaign until their arrest and execution in 1943. With documentary evidence thin on the ground – Harnack destroyed her diaries – Donner questions what motivates someone to risk their life for the sake of their beliefs in a gripping story that reads like a political thriller.”
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of six “New Paperbacks to Read This Week.”
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Rebecca Donner was awarded the 2022 Chautauqua Prize for her book All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days.
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Rebecca Donner is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
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Rebecca Donner’s All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days has been shortlisted for the 2022 Plutarch Award. “Rebecca Donner, takes an enormous risk by writing novelistically and setting her story in the present tense. The risk pays off: Part historical drama, part spy novel, Donner’s book expands the parameters of biography itself..”
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Rebecca Donner won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for her book All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days.
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Rebecca Donner was awarded the 2022 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. From the judges’ citation: “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner is not just an exemplary biography but also a propulsive, page-turning spy thriller and a rigorous, groundbreaking new history of German resistance networks during World War II.”
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is a finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days has been shortlisted for the 2022 PEN/Jaqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
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The eminent historian David Clay Large interviews Rebecca Donner about her book All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, broadcast on C-SPAN.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days has been named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021. “Donner pieces together Mildred’s life from fragments, sifting through government archives, interviews, photographs, diaries and letters. Szalai called it an ‘astonishing’ book that conveys ‘what it felt like in real time to experience the tightening vise of the Nazi regime.’”
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was named one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2021.
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The Wall Street Journal has named All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days one of the 10 Best Books of 2021.
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021.
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The New York Times selected All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2021.
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