American journalist and historian, born in 1964, she studied at Yale and Oxford. She began her career as a correspondent in Warsaw for The Washington Post, covering the post-Soviet transition in Eastern Europe. She is the author of Gulag(Pulitzer Prize 2004), Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy, and other works on totalitarianism and liberal democracy. She is a contributor to The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books, and serves as a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. In 2024, she was awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels.
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