Rebecca Donner
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

In her deeply researched 2021 nonfiction work, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the German Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler, Rebecca Donner tells the extraordinary story of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, a young American Ph.D. student who became a leader in the largest underground anti-Nazi resistance group in Berlin. The Wall Street Journal described Donner’s book as “a nonfiction narrative with the pace of a political thriller. …A deeply affecting biography, meticulously researched and illustrated.” In her acceptance speech for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Donner observed, “The men and women Mildred Harnack recruited into her underground resistance group were factory workers and office workers, artists and journalists, students and professors. While so many in Germany supported Hitler’s regime, or chose inaction, they chose to risk their lives—and resist. The story of their audacious courage serves as an inspiration to us all during this fraught time in the world.” Rebecca Donner is the author of two critically acclaimed works of fiction and is a 2022 recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.

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