David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor and member of the editorial board of The Washington Post. He was previously assistant managing editor, foreign editor, Jerusalem correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, State Department correspondent and White House correspondent. 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 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.) He has also been a correspondent for the PBS investigative series FRONTLINE. He attended the University of Delaware and St. Antony's College, Oxford. He lives with his wife in Maryland.