Rebecca Donner is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow. Her third book is the New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, a deeply researched fusion of biography, espionage thriller, and scholarly detective story about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, an American graduate student who became a leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during Hitler’s regime. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and the Chautauqua Prize, and was named one of the best books of 2021 by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, and The Economist. Her other books include two critically acclaimed works of fiction: Sunset Terrace, a novel about a community of latchkey kids in a government-subsidized housing complex, and Burnout, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Rebecca Donner is a Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and was awarded a 2018-19 residential fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. She has received degrees from Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley, and has taught at Wesleyan University, Columbia University, and Barnard College. As a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing she will devote herself to her next book, a biography of Sophie Scholl to be published by Random House.