David Ignatius
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David R. Ignatius (born May 26, 1950), an American journalist and novelist. He is currently an associate editor and columnist for the Washington Post.
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[edit] Personal
Ignatius is a graduate of St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.), Harvard College and King's College, Cambridge.
Ignatius is married to Dr. Eve Thornberg Ignatius and they have three daughters.
[edit] Career
After school, he worked for Washington Monthly and then the Wall Street Journal, where he covered the Justice Department, the CIA and was a correspondent from the Middle East. He later went to the Washington Post in 1986, where he has since remained except for a stint from 2000 through 2002 when he was executive editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and The New Republic.
[edit] Bibliography
Ignatius has also written six novels, which tend to draw on his experience and substantial additional research on international politics and finance. They belong to the suspense/spy thriller genre and are informed by his interest in foreign affairs. His novels include:
- Agents of Innocence, 1987
- SIRO, 1991
- The Bank of Fear, 1994
- A Firing Offense, 1997
- The Sun King, 1999
- Body of Lies, 2007
In 2006, he wrote a foreword to the American edition of Enemy Combatant by Moazzam Begg.
[edit] External links
- davidignatius.com, his personal website.
- David Ignatius opinion columns at the Washington Post.
- Washington Post, PostGlobal Moderator.
- Page on Ignatius at the Washington Post Writers Group.
- The writings of David R. Ignatius at thecrimson.com.
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