Rebecca Donner

Donner was born in Canada, and during childhood lived in Japan, Michigan, Virginia, and California.[3][4] She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and MFA from Columbia University.[5][6] She taught writing at Wesleyan University.[7] She wrote “Sunset Terrace,” a novel set in Los Angeles, followed by “Burnout,” a graphic novel about ecoterrorism.[6]

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.[4][6][8] The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and The Chautauqua Prize[9][6][10][11][12][13] All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was also a finalist for the Plutarch Award[14] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards.[15]

Donner received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in the general nonfiction category.[16] Donner is currently a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford.[17]

• Donner, Rebecca (2021). All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-56169-3.[18][19][10][20]
• Donner, Rebecca (2008). Burnout. New York. ISBN 9781401215378.[21]
• Donner, Rebecca (2003). Sunset Terrace. MacAdam/Cage. ISBN 978-1-931561-34-1.[22][23][24]