Anne Nelson

Anne Nelson (born 1954) is an American journalist, author, playwright, and professor.[1]

Anne Nelson
Nelson at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born1954 (age 65–66)
Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Alma materYale University
Subject
  • History
  • current events
Notable works
  • Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
  • The Guys
Website
sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/anne-nelson

Early life and education

Anne Nelson was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1954, and spent her childhood in Lincoln, Nebraska.[2][3] She graduated from Yale University in 1976.[2][4]

Career

From 1980 to 1983, Nelson served as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala.[3][4]

In 2005, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction and German and East European History for her research for the book Red Orchestra.[5]

Nelson teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.[4]

Bibliography
  • Murder Under Two Flags: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up; New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1986. ISBN 9780899193717
  • The Guys: A Play. New York : Random House, 2002. ISBN 9780812967296[1]
  • Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler. New York: Random House, 2009. ISBN 9781400060009 OCLC 229467500
  • Suzanne's Children New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. ISBN 9781501105333
  • Shadow network : media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right, New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9781635573190[6][7][8]
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References
  1. "Anne Nelson". Simon & Schuster.
  2. "Anne Nelson-Black papers". Yale University. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  3. "An Interview with Anne Nelson, Playwright & Screenwriter of The Guys". February 10, 2016.
  4. "Anne Nelson - Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
  5. "Anne Nelson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  6. Lee, Sabina (November 15, 2019). "How the American Right Gets Its Message Out". Columbia News. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  7. Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan (March 20, 2020). "Who Poisoned Talk Radio?". Sojourners. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  8. Sullivan, Margaret (May 23, 2019). "Perspective". Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
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