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.
Books in order of publication:
Lucky Girls: Stories. New York: Ecco. 2003.
The Dissident. New York: Ecco. 2006.
The Newlyweds. New York: Knopf. 2012.
Lost and Wanted. New York: Knopf. 2019.
The Limits. New York: Knopf. 2024.
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