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

Early life and education

Anne Nelson was born in

Fort Sill Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (136.8 km) southwest of Oklahoma City. It covers almost . The fort was first built during the Indian Wars. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark ...

, Oklahoma in 1954, and spent her childhood in

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United Sta ...

. She graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 1976.

Career

From 1980 to 1983, Nelson served as a war correspondent in

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and

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. In 2005, she received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in Nonfiction and German and East European History for her research for the book ''Red Orchestra''. Nelson teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. Nelson's 2021 book "How Powerful Is This Right-Wing Shadow Network?" deals with the political influence of groups including the right wing

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. She was led to investigate the group after listening to reporters on

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while driving about what was "''really'' happening". She discovered that irrationally the news in Oklahoma was not the same news that she was involved with in New York.

Bibliography

* ''Murder Under Two Flags: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up''; New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1986. * '' The Guys: A Play''. New York : Random House, 2002. * ''Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler''. New York: Random House, 2009. * ''Suzanne's Children'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. * ''Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right'', New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

References

External links

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Anne Nelson-Black Papers (MS 1444).
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nelson, Anne 1954 births Living people American women dramatists and playwrights American women journalists American women war correspondents Journalists from Oklahoma Yale University alumni Columbia University faculty 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American non-fiction writers American women non-fiction writers People from Fort Sill, Oklahoma American women academics