Anne Applebaum
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Anne Applebaum is a prize-winning historian, staff writer for The Atlantic, and senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her history books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction.
Her most recent books are The New York Times bestsellers Twilight of Democracy, which is an essay on democracy and authoritarianism, and Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World.
She was a Washington Post columnist for 15 years and a member of the editorial board. She has also been the deputy editor of The Spectator and a columnist for several British newspapers.
