Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is an American journalist, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author specializing in the history of Communism, authoritarianism, and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.[1][2] Born in Washington, DC, she graduated from Yale University, studied as a Marshall Scholar at LSE and Oxford, and has worked as a staff writer for The Atlantic, columnist for The Washington Post, and Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins' SNF Agora Institute.[2][3] She became a Polish citizen in 2013, is married to Polish politician Radosław Sikorski, and lives in London and Warsaw.[1][3]