Rene Denfeld
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Rene Denfeld is an American author, licensed investigator in the state of Oregon, and therapeutic foster-adoptive parent.
Her first novel, The Enchanted (Harper 2014), won numerous awards and accolades,[citation needed] including the French Prix award, an ALA Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Carnegie Listing. The Enchanted was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Oregonian's Best Book of the Year, and listed for the Dublin International fiction prize as well other awards. Her second novel, The Child Finder (Harper 2017) hit the bestseller lists within a week of publication. The Child Finder is a literary thriller examining the role of a young woman in finding a missing child.
Denfeld's writing is inspired by over a decade working exonerating innocents, working death row, and doing close to a thousand indigent defense cases. She has helped sex trafficking victims find asylum as well as seen the release of falsely convicted in prisons. In addition she has raised several children adopted from foster care, and has written how her life and writing revolves around preventing and healing trauma. Her writing is a compelling combination of social justice and literary prose.[opinion] One reviewer[who?] called "a thriller written as poetry".
Rene Denfeld regularly speaks on issues relating to social justice, crime and hope. Her novels have been selected as campus and community reads. She will be awarded the Break The Silence award in Washington, D.C., in November 2017 for her advocacy for victims.
Denfeld has worked for The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian and the Philadelphia Inquirer.[1]
Novels
- 2014 - The Enchanted: A Novel (HarperCollins)
- 2017 - The Child Finder (HarperCollins)
Essays and articles
- August 11, 2017. "Four Castaways Make a Family - The New York Times"
- August 30, 2017. "After a childhood of wishing for a new family, I found my dream in adulthood - The Washington Post"
References
- ^ Moreno, Julia (October 14, 2015). "Death row investigator speaks on mass incarceration". The Observer. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
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