# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-hastings
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:22:24.450Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/max-hastings"
name: "Max Hastings"
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description: "Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times."
tagline: "English journalist, editor, historian and author (born 1945)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump