Linda Kinstler
Writer and historian; author of Come to This Court and Cry, contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
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- Linda Kinstler is a writer, a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where she covers ideas.
- Her first book, Come to This Court and Cry (2022), about the last Nazi trials and her family's story, won the 2023 Whiting Award in Nonfiction.
- She is working on a history of "oblivion" as a legal and political concept.
Key facts
- Current roles
- Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine; non-resident fellow, Kennan Institute1
- Book
- Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (2022); 2023 Whiting Award in Nonfiction, shortlisted for the Wingate Prize1
- Education
- PhD in rhetoric, UC Berkeley (August 2023); studied at Cambridge and Goldsmiths as a Marshall Scholar1
- Other honours
- Essay "The Olive Branch of Oblivion" in The Best American Essays 2025; 2026 Commonweal Prize for Short Fiction1
- Earlier
- Editor at The Dial, Politico Europe and The New Republic1
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