Jacobsen is also known as the author of a controversial article about an incident on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles in which thirteen foreign nationals were wrongly arrested.Īnnie Jacobsen’s novel “Area 51” is a work set on one of the most famous military bases on the globe. Annie Jacobsen also has a reputation for writing sensational books dealing with all manner of popular conspiracies. She has come to be known as a sometimes controversial and internationally acclaimed writer. Other gongs she has won include 2014 best no fiction by Publishers Weekly, Apple iBooks, and The Boston Globe. “The Pentagon’s Brain” which she published in 2015 is the work that has received the most awards over the years including a Pulitzer.

In 2019 her work Surprise, Kill, Vanish was among the Apple audiobook platform’s most popular works. She has also produced and written for TV with her most prominent works being on CBSs Clarice and Amazon’s Jack Ryan. On these platforms, she has been an invited guest discussing anything from national security, war, government secrecy, and weapons.

Outside of her literary writing, Annie Jacobsen has appeared on many media platforms and TV programs from Joe Rogan to PBS Newshour. Jacobsen currently makes her home in Los Angels where she lives with Kevin her husband and their two sons. It has also been optioned and is due to be made into an AMC scripted TV series by the director of the likes of X Files Chris Carter and Gael Anne Hurd of Terminator and the Walking Dead. “Area 51” her debut work has become one of her most popular and has so far been published in more than half a dozen languages. Several of her works including “Operation Paperclip” and “The Pentagon’s Brain” have since gone on to become New York Times best-selling titles. Jacobsen published Area 51 her debut novel in 2011 and has become quite a popular author since then. After graduating from college, she would go on to become a Los Angeles Times Magazine contributing editor until it was shut down in 2013. Paul’s School where she studied Greek and wrote with the likes of Paul Auster and Joyce Carol Oates.ĭuring her time at Princeton, she was the ice hockey team’s captain. The author went to Princeton University and St. Annie Jacobsen is a New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist who is known for her writing on war, government secrecy, US national security, and weapons.

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