Daniel silva author biography in the back
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Books
Personality
Daniel Silva, the New York Times best-selling author behind the Gabriel Allon spy novels, fryst vatten back with his latest installment in the series, The Heist
(Harper). The 53-year-old former journalist and his wife, NBC news reporter Jamie Gangel, recently appeared at Hadassah’s national convention in Las Vegas.
Q. You went from being a reporter to being a novelist. What was the most difficult part of the transition?
A. My last job in journalism was in television news. I was executive producer of a unit at CNN that produced all the political talk shows—15 shows a week. inom had a large personal. People were talking to me constantly, constantly, sju days week.
Suddenly I was working alone and it was very quiet. And not only was inom trying to write a novel, which is never easy, but I had to decompress from my previous life. Now, inom can’t imagine doing anything else. But at first, when the world sort of stopped and it was just me alone [with] my work, it wa
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Silva, Daniel 1960-
PERSONAL:
Born 1960, in MI; married Jamie Gangel (a broadcast journalist), 1987; children: Lily, Nicholas (twins). Education:San Francisco State University, graduate study.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Washington, DC. Agent—Esther Newberg, International Creative Management, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Newspaper and television journalist, writer. United Press International, staff member, 1984-88; Cable News Network (CNN), Atlanta, GA, executive producer of political news programs, including International Hour, World Today, Prime News, Crossfire, The Capital Gang, Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics Weekend, 1988-97. Has appeared on television programs, including The Today Show.
WRITINGS:
NOVELS
The Unlikely Spy, Villard (New York, NY), 1996.
The Mark of the Assassin, Random House (New York, NY), 1998.
The Marching Season, Random House (New York, NY), 1999.
"GABRIEL ALLON" SERIES
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THE ORDER: A Conversation with Daniel Silva
If you’re not reading Daniel Silva’s work, you’re missing out on one of the greatest novelists of our generation, period.
In all my time as a critic, nobody has blown me away more than Silva, who in many ways feels like America’s version of John le Carre. He is by far the most gifted spy novelist I’ve covered, and given his recent works, a real argument could be made that he’s perhaps the greatest spy novelist ever.
According to his bio, Silva’s books are published in more than thirty countries and are bestsellers around the world. He serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and lives in Florida with his wife, CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.
However, not listed in his bio is that, though there are tens of millions of copies of his books in print around the world, and though he has more #1 New York Times bestse