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'''Anne Nelson''' (born 1954) is an American journalist, author, playwright, and professor.<ref name="simonandschuster.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Anne-Nelson/487473566|title=Anne Nelson|website=Simon & Schuster}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Anne Nelson was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1954, and spent her childhood in Lincoln, Nebraska.<ref name=Nelson-Black>{{Cite web |url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/3352 |title=Anne Nelson-Black papers |publisher=Yale University |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref><ref name="manhattandigest.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.manhattandigest.com/2016/02/10/an-interview-with-anne-nelson-playwright-and-screenwriter-of-the-guys/|title=An Interview with Anne Nelson, Playwright & Screenwriter of The Guys|date=10 February 2016|publisher=}}</ref> She graduated from Yale University in 1976.<ref name=Nelson-Black/><ref name="penguinrandomhouse.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/42701/anne-nelson|title=Anne Nelson – Penguin Random House|website=www.penguinrandomhouse.com}}</ref>
==Career== From 1980 to 1983, Nelson served as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala.<ref name="manhattandigest.com"/><ref name="penguinrandomhouse.com"/>
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''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Recognizing Young Journalists|section=Past Winners|publisher=Livingston Awards: University of Michigan|date=2024|pages=26–41}}</ref>
In 2005, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction and German and East European History for her research for the book ''Red Orchestra''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/anne-nelson/ |title=Anne Nelson |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref>
Nelson teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.<ref name="penguinrandomhouse.com"/>
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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stern|first=Scott W.|date=2020-02-19|title=How Powerful Is This Right-Wing Shadow Network?|magazine=The New Republic|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/156431/how-powerful-council-national-policy-right-wing-shadow-network|access-date=2022-01-03|issn=0028-6583}}</ref>
In 2024, she was named to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame to add 12 members, including 3 with ties to The Oklahoman |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/06/oklahoma-journalism-hall-of-fame-to-induct-12-new-members-in-2024/72484343007/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Personal life== Nelson is married to journalist and author George Black. Together they have two children.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/george-black | title=George Black }}</ref>
==Bibliography== * ''Murder Under Two Flags: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up''; New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1986. {{ISBN|9780899193717}}<ref>Reviews for ''Murder Under Two Flags'': * {{cite news |last=Stuttaford |first=Genevieve |date=March 14, 1986 |title=Murder Under Two Flags: The U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-Up |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-89919-371-7 |work=Publishers Weekly |volume=229 |issue=11 |access-date=March 22, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Appelo |first=Tim |date=April 1990 |title=Latin Lessons: Anne Nelson |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_savvy-woman_1990-04_11_4/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater |work=Savvy Woman |volume=11 |issue=4 |page=21 |access-date=March 22, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Kelleher |first=Terry |date=May 4, 1986 |title=Puerto Rico's Watergate Unraveled |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-05-04-8601260830-story.html |work=Sun-Sentinel |access-date=March 22, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Rohter |first=Larry |date=December 28, 1986 |title=In Short: Nonfiction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/28/books/in-short-nonfiction-023886.html |work=New York Times |access-date=March 22, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Del Olmo |first=Frank |date=April 27, 1986 |title=Nonfiction: Murder Under Two Flags |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-27-bk-23969-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 25, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Dwyer |first=Augusta |date=July 19, 1986 |title=Puerto Rico and the deaths of cafeteria terrorists |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/386302305/CB21BC5DD1AB4587PQ |work=The Globe and Mail |access-date=March 25, 2023 |id={{ProQuest|386302305}}}}</ref> * ''The Guys: A Play''. New York : Random House, 2002. {{ISBN|9780812967296}}<ref name="simonandschuster.com"/> * ''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}}<ref>Reviews for ''Red Orchestra'': * {{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=February 15, 2009 |title=Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-nelson/red-orchestra/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=March 25, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Burns |first=Jane |date=August 2, 2009 |title=Unsung Heroes Book Explores 'Red Orchestra' of Nazi Resisters, Some of Whom Met in Madison |url=https://madison.com/77squaresunday/unsung-heroes-book-explores-red-orchestra-of-nazi-resisters-some-of-whom-met-in-madison/article_849dbdf1-313e-57e2-bcba-dbf20a2a8a41.html |work=Wisconsin State Journal |access-date=March 25, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Herzog |first=Dagmar |author-link=Dagmar Herzog |date=June 5, 2009 |title=Berlin Underground |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/books/review/Herzog-t.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 25, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Jay |date=February 15, 2009 |title=The Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/235563204/365E66005A5F4C27PQ |work=The Booklist |volume=105 |issue=12 |access-date=March 25, 2023 |id={{ProQuest|235563204}}}} * {{cite journal |last1=Pringle Jr. |first1=Robert W. |date=2010 |title=Playing a Red Tune in Nazi Germany |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850600903348929 |journal=International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=194–197 |doi=10.1080/08850600903348929 |s2cid=154062693 |access-date=March 25, 2023|url-access=subscription }} * {{cite journal |last1=Hoffmann |first1=Peter |date=June 2011 |title=Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history/article/abs/red-orchestra-the-story-of-the-berlin-underground-and-the-circle-of-friends-who-resisted-hitler-by-anne-nelson-new-york-random-house2009-pp-189-cloth-2700-isbn-9781400060009/D51520266374C1D103FAF33D0794FD41 |journal=Central European History |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=375–377 |doi=10.1017/S0008938911000239 |s2cid=144211495 |access-date=March 25, 2023|url-access=subscription }} * {{cite journal |last1=Brand |first1=Horst |date=Winter 2012 |title=German Resistance to the Nazi State |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1018566253/365E66005A5F4C27PQ |journal=New Politics |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=115–118 |access-date=March 25, 2023 |id={{ProQuest|1018566253}}}} * {{cite journal |last1=Goedeken |first1=Ed |date=February 15, 2009 |title=Social Sciences: Red Orchestra |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/196829883/365E66005A5F4C27PQ |journal=Library Journal |volume=134 |issue=3 |access-date=March 25, 2023 |id={{ProQuest|196829883}}}}</ref> * ''Suzanne's Children'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. {{ISBN|9781501105333}}<ref>Reviews for ''Suzanne's Children'': * {{cite news |last=Cole |first=Diane |date=October 16, 2017 |title=Review: Selflessness Under Pressure |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-selflessness-under-pressure-1508194732 |work=Wall Street Journal |access-date=March 25, 2023}} * {{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=September 1, 2017 |title=Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-nelson/suzannes-children/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=March 25, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Fletcher |first=Connie |date=September 1, 2017 |title=Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1937403949/8CF5900768554311PQ |work=The Booklist |volume=114 |issue=1 |page=37 |access-date=March 26, 2023 |id={{ProQuest|1937403949}}}} * {{cite news |last=Keymer |first=David |date=September 15, 2017 |title=Social Studies: Suzanne's Children |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1937841328/8CF5900768554311PQ |work=Library Journal |volume=142 |issue=15 |access-date=March 26, 2023 |id={{ProQuest|1937841328}}}}</ref> * ''Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right'', New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. {{ISBN|9781635573190}}<ref>Reviews for ''Shadow Network'': * {{cite web | last=Lee | first=Sabina | title=How the American Right Gets Its Message Out | website=Columbia News | date=2019-11-15 | url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/shadow-network-media-money-secret-hub-radical-right-anne-nelson-right-wing | access-date=2020-05-05}} * {{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=September 1, 2019 |title=Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-nelson/shadow-network/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |volume=137 |issue=17 |access-date=March 26, 2023}} * {{cite magazine |last=Stern |first=Scott W. |date=February 19, 2020 |title=How Powerful Is This Right-Wing Shadow Network? |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/156431/how-powerful-council-national-policy-right-wing-shadow-network |magazine=The New Republic |access-date=March 26, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Wilsom-Hartgrove |first=Jonathan |date=May 2020 |title=Who Poisoned Talk Radio? |url=https://sojo.net/magazine/may-2020/who-poisoned-talk-radio |work=Sojourners |volume=49 |issue=5 |pages=22–27 |access-date=March 26, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Wilsom-Hartgrove |first=Jonathan |date=July 1, 2020 |title=The white Christian nationalist scam |url=https://www.christiancentury.org/review/books/white-christian-nationalist-scam |work=The Christian Century |volume=137 |issue=15 |pages=36–38 |access-date=March 26, 2023}} * {{cite news |last=Heywood |first=Mark |date=September 11, 2020 |title=Media, journalism under threat: What can civil society do? |url=https://www.pressreader.com/zimbabwe/the-zimbabwe-independent-9fa3/20200911/282316797449563 |work=Zimbabwe Independent |access-date=March 26, 2023}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Anne Nelson}} * {{Official website}} * {{C-SPAN|114071}} * {{cite magazine | title=How Powerful Is This Right-Wing Shadow Network? | magazine=The New Republic | date=2020-02-19 | url=https://newrepublic.com/article/156431/how-powerful-council-national-policy-right-wing-shadow-network | access-date=2020-05-05}} * [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1444 Anne Nelson-Black Papers (MS 1444).] Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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