Anne Applebaum, author portrait
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Anne Applebaum

After seventeen years as a columnist at The Washington Post, ANNE APPLEBAUM became a staff writer at The Atlantic in January 2020. She is the author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning books, including Autocracy, Inc., Twilight of Democracy, Red Famine, Iron Curtain, Between East and West, and Gulag, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between Poland, where her husband is foreign minister, and Washington, D.C.
Autocracy, Inc.
Twilight of Democracy
Red Famine
Between East and West
Iron Curtain
Gulag

Watch Anne Applebaum in Conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat at the 92nd Street Y

Books

Autocracy, Inc.
Twilight of Democracy
Red Famine
Between East and West
Iron Curtain
Gulag

Media

Watch Anne Applebaum in Conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat at the 92nd Street Y

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