Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is a journalist who writes about international relations, as well as an historian who writes about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She writes a regular column for the Washington Post and Slate magazine. Her journalism has also appeared in many other US and British publications, including the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and the Spectator.
Her book, Gulag: A History won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, as well as the Duff Cooper prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle award, among many other honors.
She is currently the political director of the Legatum Institute, and in the academic year 2012-2013 she will hold the Phillipe Roman chair in International History at the London School of Economics. She is married to Radek Sikorski, the Polish politician and writer.