David Ignatius

David Ignatius

David R. Ignatius (born May 26, 1950), an Jewish-American journalist and novelist. As of 2008, he is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. He also co-hosts PostGlobal, an online discussion of international issues at Washingtonpost.com, with Newsweek 's Fareed Zakaria.

Personal

Ignatius is a graduate of St. Albans School (Washington, DC), Harvard College, class of 1972, and King's College, Cambridge.

He is married to Dr. Eve Thornberg Ignatius and they have three daughters.

Ignatius' father, Paul Robert Ignatius is a former Secretary of the Navy and president of The Washington Post.

Career

After school, he worked for Washington Monthly and then the Wall Street Journal, where he covered the Justice Department and 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. His columns are syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group.

Bibliography

Ignatius has also written five novels in the suspense/espionage fiction genre, which draw on his experience and interest in foreign affairs:

• Agents of Innocence, 1987
• SIRO, 1991
• The Bank of Fear, 1994
• A Firing Offense, 1997
• Body of Lies, 2007; Warner Bros. film adaptation, 2008

His 1999 novel The Sun King was a departure from the espionage genre - it is a re-working of The Great Gatsby set in end-of-the-20th-century Washington

In 2006, he wrote a foreword to the American edition of Enemy Combatant by Moazzam Begg.

External links

• 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.
• Video: David Ignatius discusses how he helped Leonardo DiCaprio prepare for the Body of Lies film.
• Video (and audio) of debate/discussion with David Ignatius at Bloggingheads.tv