David Ignatius is an American journalist and novelist, currently serving as an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. Born on May 26, 1950, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is the son of Paul Robert Ignatius, a former Secretary of the Navy and president of The Washington Post. Ignatius attended St.
Albans School in Washington, D.C., and later graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1972, where he studied political theory.