Anne Applebaum was born in 1964 in Washington DC. She is an author, journalist, historian and senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Her non-fiction book Gulag: A History won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2004.
The smell of the pine needles in the back garden of my grandparents’ house in Houston, Texas. My earliest political memory is Nixon’s resignation: I was told to come and watch it on television, because “this would be part of history”.
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