Anne Applebaum (United States) is a columnist for The Washington Post, an associate professor at the London School of Economics, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books. Her previous books include Red Famine (Penguin, 2018), Iron Curtain (Random House, 2013), for which she won the Cundill Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and Gulag (Penguin, 2004), a work awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the non-fiction category. She lives in Poland with her husband, the Polish politician Radosaw Sikorski, and her two children. Her most recent book is Twilight of Democracy (Random House, 2020).