Anne Applebaum
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| Born |
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum July 25, 1964 Washington, D.C. |
| Residence | Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality | American, Polish |
| Education | B.A. 1986 (summa cum laude) M.Sc. 1987 |
| Alma mater |
Yale University London School of Economics St Antony's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist Author |
| Known for | Writings on former Soviet Union and its satellite countries |
| Home town | Washington, D.C. |
| Spouse(s) | Radosław Sikorski (m. June 27, 1992) |
| Children | Aleksander, Tadeusz |
| Website | www |
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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American-born Polish journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the director of the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute in London. She has also been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–06).
Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C. Her parents are Harvey M. Applebaum, a partner in the Covington and Burling law firm, and Elizabeth (Bloom) Applebaum, of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Applebaum has stated that she was brought up in a "very reformed" Jewish family. She graduated from the Sidwell Friends School (1982). She earned a BA (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.
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