David E. Hoffman is an American journalist, a Pultizer Prize-winning author, and a contributing editor to the Washington Post and Foreign Policy.[1]
David E. Hoffman was born in Palo Alto, Calif., grew up in Delaware and attended the University of Delaware. He came to Washington in 1977 to work for the Capitol Hill News Service. As a member of the Washington bureau of the San Jose Mercury News, he covered Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. In May 1982, he joined The Washington Post to help cover the Reagan White House. He also covered the first two years of the George H.W. Bush presidency. His White House coverage won three national journalism awards.[2]
After reporting on the State Department, he became Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post in 1992. After studying Russian at Oxford University, he began six years in Moscow. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow bureau chief, and later as foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news.
Hoffman is the author of The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, published in 2002, and The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy. The Dead Hand is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction