Hannah Zeavin Awarded Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for All Freud's Children
We're thrilled to share that Hannah Zeavin, assistant professor in the Department of History and the Berkeley Center for New Media, has been awarded the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her latest book, All Freud's Children, a group biography of noteworthy psychoanalysts and their children—beginning with Sigmund and Anna Freud—that traces some of the most significant contributions of psychoanalysis back to their intimate origins. Framed by personal reflections from the author’s own experience of being raised by analysts, it examines how the home lives of these thinkers—including the development and inner lives of their children—shaped the theories that made them famous.
The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant is awarded to writers in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction. The Whiting Foundation recognizes that these works are essential to our culture, but come into being at great cost to writers in time and resources. The grant is intended to encourage original and ambitious projects by giving recipients the additional means to do exacting research and devote time to composition.