Anne Applebaum
Historian and journalist
Anne Applebaum is a historian and journalist who has written about the history of Communism and about authoritarian rule. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004.
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American Born 1964 in Washington, D.C., United States
About Anne Applebaum
Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic. She also holds a senior fellowship at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her book Gulag: A History earned the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, and Iron Curtain received the 2013 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. She has covered Eastern Europe and Russia since 1989, beginning with the fall of communism in Poland for The Economist. She has also worked at The Spectator and served on the editorial board of The Washington Post. Her book Autocracy, Inc. came out in July 2024. It looks at how dictatorships including Russia, China and Iran cooperate to keep one another in power and weaken democracies. Applebaum is married to the Polish politician Radosław Sikorski and lives in Poland and the US.