Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum

Anne 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. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post.

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Born in Washington, DC in 1964 to a wealthy Jewish couple, Harvey M. and Elizabeth Applebaum, 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 another bachelor's degree.[1] She studied at St Antony's College, Oxford before moving to Warsaw, Poland in 1988. Working for The Economist, she provided rich firsthand (unsigned) 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 was originally booked on the Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York City during its disaster flight on December 21, 1988. However, a week before take-off, she postponed her journey by one day in order to visit friends at Oxford.[2]

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[citation needed] 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.[3]

On May 24, 2006, she wrote that she was leaving Washington to live again in Poland.[4]

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

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  1. ^ "Anne E. Applebaum to Wed in June", New York Times, 1991-12-08. Retrieved on 2008-04-23. "...summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa." 
  2. ^ Anne Applebaum -- I Was Booked on Flight 103 (1998-12-20). Retrieved on 2008-04-23. Reproduced from The Sunday Telegraph
  3. ^ Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2008-04-23). Retrieved on 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.”
  4. ^ So Long, Washington (for Now) by Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2008-04-23

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