David Hoffman

David Hoffman, twice the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the best-sellers The Oligarchs (2002),The Dead Hand (2009), and The Billion Dollar Spy (2015) has covered nuclear proliferation and national security through several decades of his career at the Washington Post. He joined the newspaper in 1982 and covered the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He was later diplomatic correspondent and the newspaper’s bureau chief in Jerusalem and Moscow, then foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news. He is the author of "The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia" (PublicAffairs, 2002); "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy" (Doubleday, 2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction; "The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal" (Doubleday, 2015); and “Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and His Daring Quest for a Free Cuba (Simon & Schuster, 2022). Hoffman has also been a correspondent for "Frontline," the flagship PBS investigative television series.