Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger (born 1975 New York City) is an American novelist.

Life

Freudenberger graduated from Harvard and has traveled extensively in Asia.

Her travel writing has been published in Travel + Leisure, Salon, The New Yorker, and The Telegraph Magazine. She has written book reviews for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue and The Nation. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker.

She is married and is the mother of two children. The family lives in Brooklyn.

Awards

• 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction
• 2005 Whiting Award for fiction
• 2006 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

Books

• Lucky Girls, Ecco/HarperCollins 2003, ISBN 978-0-06-008879-8
• The Dissident, Ecco/HarperCollins 2006, ISBN 978-0-06-075871-4
• The Newlyweds, Knopf 2012, ISBN 978-0307268846

Short stories and essays

• "The Tutor". Granta (82: Life's Like That). Summer 2003. ISBN 978-1-929001-12-5. (Subscription Required)
• "God and Me". Granta (93: God's Own Countries). Spring 2006. ISBN 978-1-929-00123-1.
• "The Virgin of Esmeraldas". Granta (99: What Happened Next). Autumn 2007. ISBN 978-1-929-00129-3. (Subscription Required)
• "Hover". The Paris Review (207). Winter 2013.
• "House of Fire". Harper's. August 2015.

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• "Too young, too pretty, too successful". Salon.com. September 4, 2003.
• "20 Under 40: Q. & A.: Nell Freudenberger". The New Yorker. June 14, 2010.
• The Dissident Reviews & Scores at Metacritic.com
• "Nell Freudenberger", Charlie Rose