Rebecca Donner

Rebecca Donner
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
OccupationWriter
AwardsNational Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2022)
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2022)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2022)
The Chautauqua Prize (2022)

Rebecca Donner is a Canadian-born writer. She is the author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, which won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, and The Chautauqua Prize She was a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship. She is currently a 2023-2024 Fellow at Harvard.