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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

The National Arts Club presents a virtual conversation with author Rebecca Donner.

Donner’s dazzling biography of Mildred Harnack, a young American teacher at the center of the German resistance to Hitler, was named one of the top nonfiction books of 2021 by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist.

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Harnack’s moving life story (already familiar to readers of Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts) is collaged into a chilling historical narrative, interspersed with photos of her actual diary entries, smuggled notes, even authentic excerpts from a Gestapo prison questionnaire.

“This biography explodes the genre of ‘biography’,” writes New Yorker critic James Wood. “Donner’s story reads with the speed of a thriller, the depth of a novel, and the urgency of an essay…”











When: Tue., Mar. 29, 2022 at 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The National Arts Club presents a virtual conversation with author Rebecca Donner.

Donner’s dazzling biography of Mildred Harnack, a young American teacher at the center of the German resistance to Hitler, was named one of the top nonfiction books of 2021 by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist.

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Harnack’s moving life story (already familiar to readers of Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts) is collaged into a chilling historical narrative, interspersed with photos of her actual diary entries, smuggled notes, even authentic excerpts from a Gestapo prison questionnaire.

“This biography explodes the genre of ‘biography’,” writes New Yorker critic James Wood. “Donner’s story reads with the speed of a thriller, the depth of a novel, and the urgency of an essay…”

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