Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (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 holds Polish citizenship as well.

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