a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. Applebaum lived in London and Warsaw during the 1990s, and for several years was a widely read columnist for London's Evening Standard newspaper. From 2002 to 2006 she was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. Applebaum wrote Between East and West (1995) and Gulag: A History (2003), which was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction writing. The Pulitzer committee named Gulag a “landmark work of historical scholarship and an indelible contribution to the complex, ongoing, necessary quest for truth”. [040609]