Nell Freudenberger





Nell Freudenberger

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born
April 21, 1975 in New York, New York, The United States

gender
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About this author

Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novel The Dissident and the story collection Lucky Girls, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; both books were New York Times Book Review Notables. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, she was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” She lives in Brooklyn with her family.


Average rating: 3.44 · 1,222 ratings · 252 reviews · 3 distinct works
Lucky Girls
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 576 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions
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The Dissident
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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The Newlyweds
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Nell Freudenberger Reading & Signing
Author appearance, June 03, 2012 04:00PM
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Nell Freudenberger reads and signs from her new novel, The Newlyweds.

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Author appearance, June 04, 2012 07:30PM
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“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.”
Nell Freudenberger, The Dissident

“... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people cold know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.”
Nell Freudenberger, The Dissident

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