In her 24 years at Newsweek, Anne Underwood has reported for every section of the magazine. She was hired in 1983 as a Reporter-Researcher and spent her first 13 years working mainly for the international and business sections, where she covered the United Nations and the Fortune 500. She was named a Newsweek Reporter in 1996 and Correspondent in July 2003. For the last 10 years, she has specialized in health, medicine, science and fitness.
Underwood is the author, with Dr. James Joseph and Dr. Daniel Nadeau, of "The Color Code"-a book about the health benefits of eating colorful foods (fruits and vegetables, that is, not jelly beans). The book grew out of an article she wrote for Newsweek.
She has also contributed to three Newsweek books: "The Bad War," by Kim Willenson (about Vietnam), "Ministry of Greed," written by Larry Martz and Ginny Carroll (about Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker) and, most recently, "Is It Hot in here? Or Is It Me? The Complete Guide to Menopause" by Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz. She has also worked on three Newsweek/Washington Post television documentaries, covering U.S. relations with the Middle East, the 20th anniversary of Watergate and the 30th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
In 1988, Underwood was awarded a full scholarship for the Journalists in Europe program, which allowed her to spend one year in Paris, reporting from Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Iceland and France. During this time, she published freelance articles in numerous U.S. newspapers, including the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe and Christian Science Monitor.
Prior to joining Newsweek in 1983, Underwood served as an assistant editor at Macmillian Publishing Co. in New York, where she helped translate "The Great Soviet Encyclopedia" into English. Prior to that, she served as a Russian translator for naval intelligence, where she helped compile a Russian-English dictionary of anti-submarine warfare, and she interned at the Pentagon.
Underwood has degrees in Russian studies and international relations from Yale and Columbia. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, with her husband, book publisher Ridley Enslow. Both are part-time musicians who play eighteenth and nineteenth century music at local historic sites. Their CD, "Music of the American Colonies," received a Notable Recordings Award for Young People from the American Library Association. Their second CD, "A Musical Journey in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark," will be published in the fall of 2008.