Nell Freudenberger

Freudenberger's fiction has appeared in Granta,[1] The Paris Review, and The New Yorker.[2] 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 Ficiton.

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."[3] The list received widespread media attention.[4][5]

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.[6]

• 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
• Lost and Wanted, Knopf 2019, ISBN 978-0385352680

• "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.