# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ignatius
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:44:52.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ignatius"
name: "David Ignatius"
slug: "david-ignatius"
description: "David Reynolds Ignatius 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 was a Senior Fellow to the Future of Diplomacy Program from 2017 to 2022."
tagline: "American journalist and novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2018-us-nationalbookfestival-david-ignatius.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump