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.

From 1980 to 1983, Nelson served as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala.
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.
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.
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.
In 2024, she was named to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.

Nelson is married to journalist and author George Black. Together they have two children.