David Ignatius

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Ignatius
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	May 26, 1950(1950-05-26)
Age	74
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Taurus

David Ignatius Biography

David Ignatius is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 26, 1950 in Massachusetts, United States. A American journalist and writer of fiction, he is most famous for his 2007 novel Body of Lies, which is the story of an CIA officer who fights terror. His other novels are The Sun King (2000) and Bloodmoney (2011).

The novel he wrote, Body of Lies, was made into a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Ignatius was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents are Nancy Sharpless (née Weiser) and Paul Robert Ignatius, a former Secretary of the Navy (1967–69), president of The Washington Post, and former president of the Air Transport Association. He is of Armenian descent on his father’s side, with ancestors from Harput, Elazığ, Turkey; his mother, a descendant of Puritan minister Cotton Mather, is of German and English descent.

Ignatius was raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. He then attended Harvard College, from which he graduated magna cum laude in

1973. Ignatius was awarded a Frank Knox Fellowship from Harvard University and studied at King’s College, Cambridge, where he received a diploma in economics.

He got married to his doctor. Eve Thornberg, with whom he had three children.

David Ignatius Net Worth

David Ignatius is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Ignatius 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The graduate graduated at Harvard University and spent ten years working as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

While in Paris In Paris, he was an executive editor at The International Herald Tribune.

David Reynolds Ignatius (born May 26, 1950) is an American journalist and novelist. He is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. He has written eleven novels, including Body of Lies, which director Ridley Scott adapted into a film. He is a former adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently Senior Fellow to the Future of Diplomacy Program. He has received numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor from the French Republic, the Urbino World Press Award from the Italian Republic, and a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee for Foreign Journalism.

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Who is David Ignatius Dating?

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In 2000 he became the executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He returned to the Post in 2002 when the Post sold its interest in the Herald Tribune. Ignatius continued to write his column once a week during his tenure at the Herald Tribune, resuming twice-weekly columns after his return to the Post. His column is syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group. The column won the 2000 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and a 2004 Edward Weintal Prize. In writing his column, Ignatius frequently travels to the Middle East and interviews leaders such as Syrian president Bashar al- Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese military organization Hezbollah.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Ignatius celebrates birthday on May 26 of every year.

In 2006 Ignatius wrote a foreword to the American edition of Moazzam Begg’s Enemy Combatant, a book about the author’s experiences as a detainee at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. In 2008, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, and Ignatius published America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, a book that collected conversations, moderated by Ignatius, between Brzezinski and Scowcroft. Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times named it one of the ten best books of 2008.

Is David Ignatius armenian?

He is of Armenian descent on his father’s side, with ancestors from Harput, Elazığ, Turkey; his mother, a descendant of Puritan minister Cotton Mather, is of German and English descent. Ignatius was raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School.

What nationality is David Ignatius?

American

How old is David Ignatius?

72 years (May 26, 1950)

Who wrote Body of Lies?

David Ignatius

Are David Ignatius books a series?

Books