Anne Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate. She is also the Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute in London. Formerly a member of the Washington Post editorial board, she has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine in London, as the Political Editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at several British newspapers, including the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. From 1988-1991 she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent of the Economist magazine. Her most recent book, Gulag: A History, was published in 2003 and won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004. Applebaum is married to Polish diplomat Radislaw Sikorski (currently Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs), with whom she has two sons. She lives in Poland, London, and Washington, D.

C. Danielle Crittenden is coauthor of From My Polish Country House Kitchen. She tested and developed many of the recipes in the book in her US kitchen. Crittenden blogs regularly for the Huffington Post and her articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, National Review, the Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, Reader's Digest, etc. etc. Crittenden was born in Toronto, Canada, she is married to David Frum, a former special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush. They have three children and live in Washington, D.

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