Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and a Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics Institute of Global Affairs, where she runs a project on 21st century disinformation.

She is the author of several books, including "Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine", "Gulag: A History", which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, and "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956". She is a former member of the Washington Post editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator, and a former Warsaw correspondent of the Economist.

Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs and many other publications.

She lives in Warsaw and London.