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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum
Born (1964-07-25) 25 July 1964 (age 60)
Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, D.C.
Nationality United States
EducationB.A. 1986 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
M.Sc., 1987
Alma materYale
London School of Economics
Occupation(s)journalist
author
Known forprize winning writings on former Soviet Union and its satellite countries
SpouseRadosław Sikorski since June 27, 1992
ChildrenAlexander, Tadeusz
Parent(s)Harvey M. Applebaum
Elizabeth (Bloom) Applebaum
WebsiteAnne Applebaum
Notes

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born in Washington, D.C. (1964-07-25) 25 July 1964 (age 60)) 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. She has been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post (2002–2006).

Early life

Her parents are Harvey M. Applebaum, a Covington and Burling partner, and Elizabeth Applebaum of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She graduated from the Sidwell Friends School (1982). She earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) at Yale University (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 in international relations (1987). She studied at St Antony's College, Oxford before moving to Warsaw, Poland in 1988 as a correspondent for The Economist.

Career

She was an editor at The Spectator, and a columnist for both the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She also wrote for The Independent. 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.

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.

Applebaum is an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank.

References

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  3. "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.
  4. "Anne Applebaum". The Washington Post Company. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  5. ^ "From concentration camps to cotton". Idaho Mountain express and guide. Express publishing inc. 2005-03-25. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  6. "The 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winners General Nonfiction". Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  7. "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.
  8. So Long, Washington (for Now) by Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2008-04-23
  9. http://www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows/current-fellows/person///anne_applebaum/35/detail/
  10. http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A000F0A-ED614ECF/bst_engl/hs.xsl/33611.htm
  11. Leonard, Brooke (8 May 2008). "Turning Abkhazia into a War". National Interest. New York City. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  12. Ames, Mark (20 October 2006). "Where Is America's Politkovskaya?". The eXile. Retrieved 2009-02-12. (Archived at WebCite)
  13. American Enterprise Institute

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