| Wikipedia: Anne Applebaum |
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| Born | 25 July 1964 Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, D.C. |
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| Nationality |  United States |
| Education | B.A. 1986 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) M.Sc., 1987 |
| Alma mater | Yale London School of Economics |
| Occupation | journalist author |
| Home town | Washington, D.C. |
| Known for | prize winning writings on former Soviet Union and its satellite countries |
| Religious beliefs | Christian[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Radosław Sikorski since June 27, 1992 |
| Children | Alexander, Tadeusz |
| Parents | Harvey M. Applebaum Elizabeth (Bloom) Applebaum |
| Website Anne Applebaum |
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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born in Wasington, D.C. 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. She has been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post (2002–2006).
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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).[3] She studied at St Antony's College, Oxford before moving to Warsaw, Poland in 1988.
Career
She was an editor at The Spectator, and a columnist for both the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She also wrote for The Indpendent. 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.[citation needed] She is married to Radosław Sikorski, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. They have two children, Alexander and Tadeusz.[4]
On May 24, 2006, she wrote that she was leaving Washington to live again in Poland.[5]
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 neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank.[6][7][8]
She supported Barack Obama in the United States presidential election, 2008.[9]
See also
References
- ^ Comment Is King by Virginia Heffernan, New York Times, 2009-04-23. Retrieved 2009-05-03
- ^ "Anne Applebaum". Contemporary Authors Online (updated 11/30/2005. ed.). Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. 2008 [2006]. H1000119613. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Retrieved on 2009-04-14. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.
- ^ "Anne E. Applebaum to Wed in June". New York Times (New York City). 1991-12-08. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DF1E3AF93BA35751C1A967958260. Retrieved on 2008-04-23. "...summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa."
- ^ "Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. 2008-04-23. http://www.msz.gov.pl/Minister,of,Foreign,Affairs,Radoslaw,Sikorski,13614.html. 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."
- ^ So Long, Washington (for Now) by Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2008-04-23
- ^ Leonard, Brooke (8 May 2008). "Turning Abkhazia into a War". National Interest (New York City). http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=17660. Retrieved on 2008-31-12.
- ^ Ames, Mark (20 October 2006). "Where Is America’s Politkovskaya?". The eXile. http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=8336. Retrieved on 2009-02-12. (Archived at WebCite)
- ^ American Enterprise Institute
- ^ Applebaum, Anne (2008-10-28). "Why McCain Lost me". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702406.html?.
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
- Contemporary Review, December, 2003, review of Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps, p. 379.
- History Today, October, 2003, Helen Rappaport, review of Gulag, p. 58.
- Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 1994, review of Between East and West, p. 1095.
- New York Times Book Review, December 18, 1994, Robert D. Kaplan, review of Between East and West, pp. 11-12.
- Wall Street Journal, October 24, 1994, Brian Hill, review of Between East and West, p. A11.
- Washington Post Book World, November 20, 1994, Marie Arana-Ward, review of Between East and West, p. 4.
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