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Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. From 2002-2006 she was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post

Biography

Born in Washington, DC in 1964 she was a 1982 graduate of the prestigious Sidwell Friends School. She earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Yale University in 1986, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. As a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics she earned a master's degree. She studied at St Antony's College, Oxford before moving to Warsaw, Poland in 1988. Working for The Economist, she provided coverage of important social and political transitions in Eastern Europe, both before and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 1992 she was awarded the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award.

Applebaum lived in London and Warsaw during the 1990s, and was for several years a widely read columnist for London's Evening Standard newspaper. She wrote about the workings of Westminster, and opined on issues foreign and domestic.

Applebaum's first book, Between East and West, is a travelogue, and was awarded an Adolph Bentinck Prize in 1996. Her second book, Gulag: A History, was published in 2003 and was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction writing. The Pulitzer committee named Gulag a "landmark work of historical scholarship and an indelible contribution to the complex, ongoing, necessary quest for truth."

Applebaum is fluent in English, French, Polish and Russian. She is married to Radosław Sikorski, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. They have two children, Alexander and Tadeusz.

On May 24, 2006, she wrote that she was leaving Washington to live again in Poland.

Anne Applebaum was a George Herbert Walker Bush/ Axel Springer Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, in spring 2008.

Anne supported Barack Obama in the United States presidential election, 2008.

References

  1. "Anne E. Applebaum to Wed in June". New York Times. New York City. 1991-12-08. Retrieved 2008-04-23. ...summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
  2. "Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2008-04-23. Radosław Sikorski is married to journalist and writer Anne Applebaum, who won the 2004 Pulitzer prize for her book "Gulag: A History". They have two sons: Aleksander and Tadeusz.
  3. So Long, Washington (for Now) by Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2008-04-23
  4. Why McCain Lost me by Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, 2008-10-28.

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Further reading

  • Anne Applebaum, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, Pantheon Books, October, 1994, hardcover, ISBN 0-679-42150-5; another hardcover edition, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-517-15906-6 Introduction online
  • Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, Doubleday, April, 2003, hardcover, 677 pages, ISBN 0-7679-0056-1; trade paperback, Bantam Dell, 11 May, 2004, 736 pages, ISBN 1-4000-3409-4 Introduction online


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