Rebecca Frankel is the author of the New York Times best-selling book War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love, and Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love which was named one of "The Ten Best History Books of 2021" by Smithsonian magazine, and a 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist. 

 

Rebecca is currently at work on her third book, A Home for Dyngo, a memoir about adopting a former Air Force bomb-sniffing dog who saved lives in Afghanistan, forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.  

 

A longtime editor and journalist, Rebecca was executive editor of Foreign Policy's print magazine and managing editor of Moment magazine. Her editing work has received multiple accolades including a Polk Award for coverage of the 2015 MSF Hospital bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

 

She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Rebecca has been a featured guest on Conan, PBS NewsHour, BBC World News, and the Diane Rehm Show, among others.

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Rebecca lives in Washington, D.C.

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