
"Siegal’s fascinating narrative conveys the pomp, graft, bustle and rough justice of 17th-century Holland through a multitude of voices." "Siegal succeeds in the task she has set for herself – to transmute her material into a work of art." talent is in exploring the wrenching emotion of loss and the price that's paid for trying to understand human life." "A literary page-turner that captures a story behind a masterpiece. Magazine, Art in America,, ArtNews, and The Economist. In addition to The New York Times, her freelance writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, W. She has received numerous grants and fellowships including a Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing, two MacDowell Colony fellowships, and the post-graduate Jack Leggett Fellowship from Iowa. Talese/Knopf Doubleday, 2014) and A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THE FACTS (HarperCollins, 2008). YOU'LL THANK ME FOR THIS (Mulholland, Little, Brown, 2021), THE ANATOMY LESSON (Nan A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and her BA in English Literature from Cornell University. Siegal is currently completing her doctorate at the University of Amsterdam in the research school for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture.

She is a 2021 recipient of the Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant, and a Humanity in Action Fellow. Nina has published three novels and is currently working on a nonfiction book, THE DIARY KEEPERS, forthcoming in 2023 from ECCO/HarperCollins.


She covers art and culture, history and society. She has been a regular freelance contributor to The New York Times from Amsterdam since 2012. Nina Siegal is an author and journalist from New York who lives in Europe.
