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American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer

Nell Freudenberger (born April 21, in New York City) is an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

Education

Freudenberger graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts^[1] and received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University.^[2]

Career

Fiction

Freudenberger's fiction has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review and The New Yorker.^[3][4] After her collection Lucky Girls was published in , she received the PEN/Malamud Award, a short story prize sponsored by PEN International.

When Freudenberger's novel The Dissident appeared in , she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction.

In June , 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 "Twent