Elena Lappin
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Elena Lappin is a British author and journalist, born in Moscow in 1954, who grew up in Prague and Hamburg, and has lived in Israel, Canada and the United States. Her husband is a US citizen. She lives, since 1993, in London where she edited the Jewish Quarterly from 1994 to 1997.
In 2004, Elena Lappin became known as one of the journalists deported from the United States due to a lesser known requirement for journalists to apply for a peculiar kind of visa. Elena Lappin's experience of the deportation from the US has been printed in prestigious news papers, such as Los Angeles Times and The Guardian.
Bibliography
- Jewish Voices, German Words: Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria (1994)
- Foreign Brides, twelve humorous short stories (1999) about women coping in foreign countries with foreign husbands.
- The Nose, novel (2001)
External links
- Welcome to America (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html) in The Guardian (Elena Lappin's account of the deportation)
- report on the deportation (http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/58696) by the International Freedom of Expression Exchange