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Nell Freudenberger
(b.1975)Nell Freudenberger is a writer who lives in New York City. Her first book, a story collection entitled Lucky Girls, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2003 and won the PEN/Malamud Award. Her second book, a novel called The Dissident, was published in 2006, also by Ecco. Freudenberger graduated from Harvard and has traveled extensively in Asia. Her 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.
Awards: PEN (2004) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
Books containing stories by Nell Freudenberger
The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and Lorrie Moore
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