Author of ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS • 2023/24 Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow • 2023 Oxford Visiting Scholar • 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
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#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin & moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she witnessed a rapid increase in Hitler's popularity. 1/12
Thrilled to announce that I will be a Cullman Fellow in 2026-27! The projects undertaken by this cohort of scholars and writers are impressive and inspiring, and it’s an honor to join them.
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Chinese translation of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days💥The cover prominently features Gestapo mugshots of my great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack & her coconspirators in Berlin's underground resistance. Many thanks to translator Li Xueshun & my publisher🙏
Announcement from my publisher @littlebrown:
$2.99 Kindle deal for ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS (April 14-20) 💥
#OTD Sophie Scholl, age 21, was executed by guillotine at Stadelheim Prison in Munich. A key member of the White Rose resistance group, she sought to overthrow the Nazi regime. My biography of this immeasurably courageous young woman will be published by Random House in 2026.
#OTD my great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s order. In 1932 she began holding clandestine meetings in her Berlin apt. By 1940 the group was the largest resistance network in Berlin. During this fraught time in the world, her story is more urgent than ever.
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More to add to your TBR pile! These excellent memoirists made the Six Recs list this week.
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Det blir litteraturfestivalen NALF i Oslo 5 -7 september på @Litteraturhuset, med Merve Emre, Rebecca Donner, James Wood, Mark Greif m. fl. tidensand.no/usa-na-igjen
Especially meaningful to receive the Polish translation of ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS today, the day my great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was executed. 🤍#OTD Feb 16, 1943
Immeasurably meaningful to me
@RRRDonner Several years ago, Rebecca, you gave me the location of Mildred and Arvid's stolpersteines. I made a note of it, and I've just had my first visit to Berlin and made sure I had time to visit the spot #stolpersteine #Berlin
Exuberant thanks to Lief G.W. Persson for choosing the Swedish translation of ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS "Best Christmas Present of the Year" on Swedish television💥Shout out to my magnificent translator Christian Ekvall.
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La resistencia antinazi en Alemania: Rebecca Donner, en "La frecuente oscuridad de nuestros días" @LibrosAsteroide
Delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. @RoyalHistSoc
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🗣️"Encara s'ha de parlar de barbàries nazis com la dels experiments que es van fer amb dones vives" - @RRRDonner («La foscor dels nostres dies»).
✍️🏻@CaterinaUbeda a @sapienscat
Many thanks to the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at #ChapmanUniversity for a phenomenal event last night!
What a magnificent surprise to see my book recommended by @Nataliekitro on the homepage of today’s New York Times!
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Just some of the books that inspire me while writing The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram. @Isabelwilkerson @annas_tea_ @margotshetterly #margojefferson @RRRDonner @kershaw_alex @lizamundy @soniapurnell @KieseLaymon @CharlesMBlow @theferocity @jeffhobbs42 @blgtylr Idea: @__eshani
Pub day! The Italian translation of ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS is out in the world💥Exuberant thanks to my spectacular publisher @feltrinellied & to Giulia Gazzelloni for the superb translation.
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No us perdeu aquest fil sobre Mildred Harnack l'escriptora i traductora nord-americana q es va integrar a la resistència antinazi alemanya junt amb el seu marit Arvid Harnack.
