About
Anne Applebaum is an American-Polish journalist and historian, born on July 25, 1964, in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Yale and the London School of Economics, she served as Warsaw correspondent for The Economist and as an editorial board member and columnist for The Washington Post. She is known for her works on Soviet history and Eastern Europe, including Gulag, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004, and Iron Curtain, which received the Cundill Prize in 2012. She writes for The Atlantic and co-directs the Arena Initiative on disinformation at Johns Hopkins University. Married to Polish politician Radosław Sikorski, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2024.
* 1964-07-25
Major works
- Gulag: A History (2003)historical non-fiction
- Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (2012)historical non-fiction
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017)historical non-fiction
- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (2020)political essay
- Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (2024)political essay
Key milestones
- 2004Wins the Pulitzer Prize for Gulag: A History
- 2012Wins the Cundill Prize for Iron Curtain
- 2024Receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Themes
History of communismTotalitarianismDemocracy and authoritarianismEastern EuropeDisinformation
Sources: nationalbook.org · snfagora.jhu.edu · rsliterature.org