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Daniel Silva is the former executive producer of CNN’s Washington-based public affairs programming, including such popular broadcasts as Crossfire, The Capital Gang, Late Edition, Evans & Novak, and Inside Politics Weekend.
He began his career in journalism in San Francisco. While pursuing a graduate degree in international relations at San Francisco State University, he was hired by United Press International for a temporary assignment during the Democratic National Convention in 1984. After a week, UPI offered him a job. Silva left graduate school and went to work.
After working in San Francisco for a year, Silva was transferred to UPI’s foreign desk in Washington, D.C., where he worked for two years. In 1987, he was named Middle East Correspondent and posted in Cairo.
He traveled extensively in the region and covered the Iran-Iraq war, terrorism and political conflicts. On assignment in the Persian Gulf, he met his wife, Jamie Gangel, National Correspondent for NBC News “Today.” The two were married in 1988, and Silva returned to Washington and went to work for CNN.
For five years, Silva worked in the newsroom of CNN’s Washington Bureau, producing programs such as “The International Hour,” “Inside Politics,” “The World Today,” and “Prime News.” In 1993, he moved to the talk show unit and in 1994, began work on The Unlikely Spy, his first novel, which went on to surprise bestsellerdom and critical acclaim. Since then, he has written The Mark of the Assassin (1998), The Marching Season (1999) and The Kill Artist (2000), all of which followed suit and hit the bestseller list. The English Assassin will be published in March, 2002.
Silva and wife have 7-year-old twins, Lily and Nicholas, and live in Georgetown in Washington, D.C. Silva left CNN in June of 1997 to concentrate full time on his writing. He is currently at work on his sixth novel.
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