Nell Freudenberger
Nell Freudenberger (born 1975, in New York City) is an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Education. Freudenberger graduated from Harvard and has traveled extensively in Asia. Career. Fiction. Freudenberger's fiction has appeared in "Granta", "The Paris Review," and "The New Yorker". After her collection "Lucky Girls" was published in 2003, she received the PEN/Malamud Award, a short story prize sponsored by PEN International. When Freudenberger's novel "The Dissident" appeared in 2006, she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction. In June 2010, Freudenberger was featured along with fellow writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Karen Russell, ZZ Packer, and Gary Shteyngart in "The New Yorker"'s "20 Under 40 Fiction" issue. Per the magazine, these authors represented "Twenty young writers who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction." The list received widespread media attention. Journalism. Freudenberger's 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". Personal life. Freudenberger is married and has two children. The family lives in Brooklyn.