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David Ignatius is a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post and has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for nearly four decades.\\xa0 Ignatius has written 11 spy novels: \\u201cThe Paladin\\u201d (2020), \\u201cThe Quantum Spy,\\u201d (2017), \\u201cThe Director,\\u201d (2014), \\u201cBloodmoney\\u201d (2011), \\u201cThe Increment\\u201d (2009), \\u201cBody of Lies\\u201d (2007), \\u201cThe Sun King\\u201d (1999), \\u201cA Firing Offense\\u201d (1997), \\u201cThe Bank of Fear\\u201d (1994), \\u201cSIRO\\u201d (1991), and \\u201cAgents of Innocence\\u201d (1987). \\u201cBody of Lies\\u201d was made into a 2008 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.

Ignatius joined The Post in 1986 as editor of its Sunday Outlook section. In 1990 he became foreign editor, and in 1993, assistant managing editor for business news. He began writing his column in 1998 and continued even during a three-year stint as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Earlier in his career, Ignatius was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering at various times the steel industry, the Departments of State and Justice, the CIA, the Senate, and the Middle East.

Ignatius grew up in Washington, D.C., and studied political theory at Harvard College and economics at Kings College, Cambridge. He lives in Washington with his wife and has three daughters.