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Sulome Anderson

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Sulome Anderson (born 1985) is an American journalist. Her work has been published in Newsweek, Harper's, The Atlantic, and Foreign Policy.[1][2]

In 2017, she published a book, The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East which detailed her struggles with drug addiction and depression.[3][4] The book won a bronze Nonfiction Book Award from the Nonfiction Authors Association.[5]

Her father was journalist Terry A. Anderson, who was kidnapped and held hostage by Hezbollah from 1985 to 1991. Her mother is Madeleine Bassil, who is Lebanese Maronite Catholic.[6] On April 22, 2024, she announced her father's death in Greenwood Lake, N.Y.[7]

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  1. ^ "Freelancing abroad in a world obsessed with Trump". Columbia Journalism Review.
  2. ^ "Ex-hostage's daughter finds dad's love by meeting his captor". AP NEWS. January 22, 2017.
  3. ^ Burleigh, Nina (November 25, 2016). "Terry Anderson's Daughter Investigates His 1985 Kidnapping". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. October 22, 2016.
  5. ^ "Book Award Winner: The Hostage's Daughter". Nonfiction Authors Association. January 31, 2017.
  6. ^ "'The Hostage's Daughter': A Traumatic Ordeal That Shaped The Life Of Sulome Anderson". www.nhpr.org. October 9, 2016.
  7. ^ "US journalist Terry Anderson, held hostage in Lebanon in 1980s, dies". The Guardian. April 22, 2024. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

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