Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum
Applebaum in 2024
Born
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum

(1964-07-25) July 25, 1964[1]
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Citizenship
  • United States
  • Poland
Education
Known forWriting on Soviet Union and its satellite countries
Spouse
Radosław Sikorski
(m. 1992)
Children2
AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Websitewww.anneapplebaum.com

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum[2][3] (born July 25, 1964) is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013.

Applebaum has worked at The Economist and The Spectator magazines,[4] and she was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–2006).[5] She won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2004 for Gulag: A History.[6] She is a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine,[7] as well as a senior fellow of the SNF Agora Institute and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University .[8]

  1. ^ Petrone, Justine. "Interview with Anne Applebaum". City Paper. Baltic News Ltd. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
  2. ^ "Weddings: Anne Applebaum, Radek Sikorski". The New York Times. June 28, 1992.
  3. ^ @anneapplebaum (December 11, 2021). "Elizabeth is indeed my middle name though I can't imagine that it is important" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ Cohen, Nick (July 12, 2020). "Anne Applebaum: how my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit". The Observer. London. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  5. ^ "Anne Applebaum". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  6. ^ "'The Known World' Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction". The New York Times. April 5, 2004. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  7. ^ "Anne Applebaum Joins The Atlantic as Staff Writer". The Atlantic. November 15, 2019. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  8. ^ "Anne Applebaum: Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins". snfagora.jhu.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2020.