David Hoffman Biography
David Hoffman is a writer and journalist who works as a contributing editor for The Washington Post. In 2010, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book on the aftermath of the nuclear arms race.
How old is David Hoffman?- Age
He is 70 years old as of August 2023. David was born David Emanuel Hoffman on August 5, 1953, in Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
David Hoffman Family- Education
Hoffman grew up in Delaware United States, and attended the University of Delaware after being born in Palo Alto, California.
Is David Hoffman Married?- Wife
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about He’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
David Hoffman career
In 1977, he moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Capitol Hill News Service. He covered Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign as a member of the San Jose Mercury News’ Washington bureau. He joined The Washington Post in May 1982 to cover the Reagan White House. He also covered George H. W. Bush’s first two years in office. Three national journalistic prizes were bestowed upon him for his coverage of the White House. In 1992, he became The Washington Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief after reporting on the State Department. He spent six years in Moscow after studying Russian at Oxford University. He was Moscow bureau head from 1995 to 2001, then foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news.
The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, Hoffman’s debut book, was released by PublicAffairs in 2002. In 2010, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his second book, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Doubleday, 2009). The winner of the Nobel Prize called it “a well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.” Hoffman wrote The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal in 2015, based on the story of Adolf Tolkachev, who was captured and executed for handing the CIA sensitive information.
David Hoffman Books
- The Oligarchs:
- The Dead Hand:
- The Billion Dollar Spy:
David Hoffman Net Worth
David has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.