Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism-Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.
She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–06). Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize in April 2004 for Gulag: A History published the previous year. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Books in order of publication:
- Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe. Pantheon Books. (1994).
- Gulag: A History, Doubleday, 2003, 677 pages,; paperback, Bantam Dell, 2004.
- Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, Allen Lane, 2012.
- Gulag Voices : An Anthology, Yale University Press, 2011.
From a Polish Country House Kitchen, Chronicle Books, 2012. - Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Penguin Randomhouse, 2017.
- Twilight of Democracy, Doubleday, 2020.
- Wybór (Choice), Agora, (2021)
- Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, Doubleday, (2024)
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