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Anne Applebaum is a journalist and author who has written extensively about issues related to communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe. She is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post.
Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she attended Yale University, and was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and St Antony's College, Oxford. In 1992 she was awarded the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award.
Applebaum's first book, Between East and West, 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 nonfiction writing.
Applebaum is married to Radek Sikorski, a Polish politician and writer. She has two children.
Further reading
- Anne Applebaum, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, Pantheon Books, October, 1994, hardcover, ISBN 0679421505; another hardcover edition, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0517159066 Introduction online (http://www.anneapplebaum.com/eastwest/intro.html)
- Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, Doubleday, April, 2003, hardcover, 677 pages, ISBN 0767900561; trade paperback, Bantam Dell, 11 May, 2004, 736 pages, ISBN 1400034094 Introduction online (http://www.anneapplebaum.com/gulag/intro.html)
External links
Adapted from the article Anne Applebaum (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Anne_Applebaum), from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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