Anne Nelson


Anne Nelson is an American journalist, author, playwright, and professor.

Early life and education

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

Career

From 1980 to 1983, Nelson served as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala.
In 2005, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship 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.