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Anne Nelson
American journalist (born 1954) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anne Nelson (born 1954) is an American journalist, author, playwright, and professor.[1]
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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 1989, she was given a Livingston Award for Excellence in International Reporting for the piece "In the Grotto of the Pink Sisters" for Mother Jones.[5]
In 2005, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction and German and East European History for her research for the book Red Orchestra.[6]
Nelson teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.[4]
Nelson's 2019 book Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right deals with the political influence of groups including the right wing Council for National Policy.[7]
In 2024, she was named to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.[8]
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Personal life
Nelson is married to journalist and author George Black. Together they have two children.[9]
Bibliography
- Murder Under Two Flags: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up; New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1986. ISBN 9780899193717[10]
- 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[11]
- Suzanne's Children New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. ISBN 9781501105333[12]
- Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9781635573190[13]
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