Rebecca Donner

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.

Biography Donner was born in Canada, and during childhood lived in Japan, Michigan, Virginia, and California. She wrote “Sunset Terrace,” a novel set in Los Angeles, followed by “Burnout,” a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and The Chautauqua Prize All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Plutarch Award, and a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards. Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird praised the book as "a stunning literary achievement."

Donner is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship. She received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in the general nonfiction category. In 2023, Donner was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford. 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 2022 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2022 Chautauqua Prize 2022 Governor General's Literary Award, finalist 2022 Plutarch Award, finalist

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