It was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster in the U.S. Her first commercial non-fiction book, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free, is about the famous women’s hotel on 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City. Her next book, Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012), is a collection of edited essays with Mary Neuburger of the University of Texas, Austin. The book cast one of the first lines in what would become a new field of study about late communism, winning the 2012 Council for European Studies Book Prize, the 2012 Austrian Studies Association Book Prize, and short-listed for the 2011 Wayne S. Her first book, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring (Cornell University Press, 2010), is a history of everyday life in the two decades after the Soviet invasion. in European History at New York University, as a MacCracken Fellow, studying with the late historian Tony Judt. in International and East European Studies, as a Jackson Fellow, at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and then a Ph.D.
She majored in the College of Letters Program, graduating in 1987 with honors, and winning the Horgan Prize for short fiction. Her family later moved to the United States, where Bren attended Garden City High School in New York, and then Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Growing up in Watford, outside of London, Bren attended the Watford Grammar School for Girls and the Northwood College for Girls. In 1968, the Soviet-Warsaw Pact Army invaded Czechoslovakia, bringing an end to the Prague Spring, and her family managed to leave for the United Kingdom just weeks before the borders closed shut. She now writes narrative nonfiction with a focus on women’s history.īren was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Her earlier work focused on postwar Europe, particularly the history of everyday life behind the Iron Curtain. She teaches at Vassar College as the Adjunct Professor of Multidisciplinary Studies on the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities.
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