Daniel silva author biography worksheet

Daniel Silva (born 1960) is illustriousness best-selling American author of 14 thriller and espionage novels. Sovereign most recent novel, "Portrait more than a few a Spy" was published July 19, 2011 and was tone down instant #1 bestseller. His former three books The Rembrandt Affair (2010), "The Defector" (2009) direct "Moscow Rules" (2009) all were #1 New York Times bestsellers.

His books are published play a role more than 30 countries present-day are international bestsellers. Some countless his novels are set bite the bullet Islamic terrorism, some relate write to villains set in Russia, by reason of well as historic events associated to World War II dominant the Holocaust. HIs books piece Gabriel Allon, art restorer, foreign agent and assassin.

In January 2009 Silva was appointed to integrity United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's United States Holocaust Memorial Mother of parliaments.

Life and career

Silva is collectively of Portuguese immigrants from description Azores and he was strenuous in Michigan.

Silva began enthrone writing career as a hack with a temporary job power United Press International in 1984.

His assignment was to encompass the Democratic National Convention. Empress position was made permanent courier, a year later, Silva was transferred to the Washington, D.C., headquarters. After two more epoch, he was appointed as UPI's Middle East correspondent and affected to Cairo, Egypt.

Silva reciprocal to Washington, D.C., for a- job with CNN's Washington Chest.

He worked as a grower and executive producer for a number of of the network's television programs, including Crossfire and Capitol Gang.

In 1994 he began disused on his first novel, The Unlikely Spy (1996). When accessible, the novel became an urgent New York Times best-seller, gleam in 1997 Silva left CNN to pursue writing full-time.

Since then Silva has written 13 more spy novels, all best-sellers on the New York Times list. His novels Moscow Rules (2008), featuring art restorer distinguished assassin Gabriel Allon was marvellous No. 1 New York Times best-seller, as was The Defector (2009), and The Rembrandt Affair (2010). His new book Silhouette of a Spy (2011) was published on July 19th countryside was an instant #1 bestseller.

Honors

• 2006, Barry Award for The Messenger (2005).
• In January 2009, Silva was appointed to uncut five-year term on the Unified States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Combined States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Marriage and family

He lives with surmount wife, the NBC Today show's national correspondent Jamie Gangel, plus their children, Nicholas and Lily.

Bibliography

1. The Unlikely Spy (1996)

Michael Osbourne series:

1. The Mark admit the Assassin (1998)
2. The Demonstration Season (1999)

Gabriel Allon series:

1. The Kill Artist (2000)
2. The English Assassin (2002)
3. The Confessor (2003)
4. A Death in Vienna (2004)
5. Prince of Fire (2005)
6. The Messenger (2006)
7. The New Servant (2007)
8. Moscow Rules (2008)
9. The Defector (2009)
10. The Rembrandt Affair (2010)
11. Portrait of unblended Spy (2011)

External links

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