Anika Scott

Anika Scott grew up outside Detroit, Michigan and has a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University in New York. She worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune before moving to Germany in 2001. Since then she has freelanced for US and European media including Deutschlandfunk , and taught journalism at the Technical University in Chemnitz. She now lives in Essen with her husband and two daughters. Her debut...See more

Anika Scott grew up outside Detroit, Michigan and has a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University in New York. She worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune before moving to Germany in 2001. Since then she has freelanced for US and European media including Deutschlandfunk , and taught journalism at the Technical University in Chemnitz. She now lives in Essen with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel The German Heiress was an international bestseller. The Soviet Sisters is her second novel. See less