Anne Applebaum
Historian and Atlantic staff writer; Pulitzer winner for Gulag, author of Autocracy, Inc.
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The Atlantic (staff writer)
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- Anne Applebaum is an American-Polish journalist and historian of communism and of Central and Eastern Europe.
- Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
- Applebaum worked for The Economist and The Spectator and was on The Washington Post editorial board from 2002 to 2006.
- Applebaum has been a staff writer at The Atlantic from January 2020 and is a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins' SNF Agora Institute and SAIS.
- Later books include Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc. (2024).
- Applebaum became a Polish citizen in 2013.
Key facts
- Born
- 25 July 1964, Washington, D.C.1
- Education
- BA in history and literature, Yale (1986); master's in international relations, London School of Economics (1987)1
- Roles
- Staff writer, The Atlantic, from January 2020; senior fellow, SNF Agora Institute and SAIS, Johns Hopkins University1
- Earlier
- The Economist; The Spectator; Washington Post editorial board, 2002 to 2006; Legatum Institute, 2011 to 2016; LSE professor of practice1
- Books
- Gulag: A History (2003); Iron Curtain (2012); Red Famine (2017); Twilight of Democracy (2020); Autocracy, Inc. (2024)1
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2004); Lionel Gelber Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for Red Famine1
- Newsletter
- Open Letters1
Roles
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- The AtlanticOrganization
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