Anne Applebaum
Staff writter, The Atlantic, USA
Anne Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in a reform Jewish family. She graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1982 and earned a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in history and literature from Yale University. Applebaum spent the summer of 1985 in Leningrad, which influenced her views.
She obtained a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar. She worked as a correspondent for The Economist in Warsaw, Poland, from 1988. In 1989, she reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Applebaum's book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism was published in July 2020 and became a bestseller. She was also a signer of the "Harper's Letter" in the same month. In November 2022, Applebaum was among the US citizens sanctioned by Russia for supporting the regime in Kyiv.
Anne Applebaum
Staff writter, The Atlantic, USA
Anne Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in a reform Jewish family. She graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1982 and earned a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in history and literature from Yale University. Applebaum spent the summer of 1985 in Leningrad, which influenced her views.
She obtained a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar. She worked as a correspondent for The Economist in Warsaw, Poland, from 1988. In 1989, she reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Applebaum's book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism was published in July 2020 and became a bestseller. She was also a signer of the "Harper's Letter" in the same month. In November 2022, Applebaum was among the US citizens sanctioned by Russia for supporting the regime in Kyiv.