Rene Denfeld
Rene Denfeld is an American writer and licensed Investigator in the state of Oregon.
Her first novel, The Enchanted (Harper 2014) won numerous awards and accolades, including the prestigious 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 work was 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. Rene Denfeld regularly speaks on issues relating to social justice, crime and hope.
Denfeld has worked for The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian and the Philadelphia Inquirer.[1]
Publications
- 1995 - The New Victorians
- 2007 - All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families
- 2009 - Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall: A Closer Look at Women, Violence, and Aggression
- 2014 - The Enchanted: A Novel." (HarperCollins)
References
- ↑ Moreno, Julia (October 14, 2015). "Death row investigator speaks on mass incarceration". The Observer. Retrieved January 15, 2016.