Anne Ipsen

Anne Ipsen is a Danish-American writer, speaker, and environmentalist. She is the author of two memoirs, six novels, an environmental book, and a children’s story. The memoirs and first two novels were written while Dr. Ipsen was a Professor of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. After she left academia to write full-time, she and her husband returned to live in Massachusetts. They have two children and five grandchildren.

Anne’s first memoir, “A Child’s Tapestry of War,” describes her childhood in Denmark during the German occupation of World War II, it was recently followed by “Landing on my Feet, a Teenage Immigrant in 1950s Boston.”

The first two novels, “Karen from the Mill” and “Running before the Prairie Wind,” are take place during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The story begins in Denmark when Karen is sixteen, and continues as she sails around the world with her husband and finally settles in Minnesota. Anne’s second novel sequence is a trilogy that spans 350 years of New England history starting with “At the Concord of the Rivers,” during colonial times, and continuing in the near future with “Green Valley.”

She has also written an environmental workbook and a very popular translation of Danish folktales, “The Nisse Book.”