BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2018 – 2019

Rebecca Donner

For a biography on Mildred Harnack

Rebecca Donner is the author of a novel, Sunset Terrace (MacAdam/Cage), and a graphic novel, Burnout(DC Comics). Her essays, reportage, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Reviewand Bookforum. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA Writing Program, Donner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. As a Leon Levy Fellow she worked on a biography of Mildred Harnack, an American literary scholar who was a leader of one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance groups in Germany, to be published by Little, Brown.