Elena Lappin

Elena Lappin (b. 1954, Moscow) [cite web
url=http://www.panmacmillan.com/Authors%20Illustrators/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Contributor&ContributorID=70244&RLE=Author
title=Elena Lappin: Author
publisher=Pan Macmillian] is a British author and journalist. She 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. Her brother is the German writer Maxim Biller.

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. [cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html|title=Welcome to America|publisher=The Guardian|date=2004-06-05|accessdate=2007-05-29] Elena Lappin's experience of her brief imprisonment and 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)

References

External links

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html "Welcome to America"] in The Guardian (Elena Lappin's account of the deportation)
* [http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/58696 report on the deportation] by the International Freedom of Expression Exchange