Anne Applebaum

About The Author

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian. Her books Gulag: A History; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956; and Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine have appeared in more than two dozen translations. Her most recent book is Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Applebaum is a former columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Books by Anne Applebaum

The American Crisis

What Went Wrong. How We Recover.

By Writers of The Atlantic
Afterword by Anne Applebaum / Edited by Cullen Murphy / Introduction by Jeffrey Goldberg
Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic.
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