David Gardner

David Gardner is an experienced writer and journalist, currently working as an Editor for Newsweek. He also worked for the Daily Mail as a crime writer and senior foreign correspondent, filing dispatches from war-torn Beirut, covering the first Gulf War – he was the first British print journalist into Baghdad – and travelling around the world on assignments for the award-winning newspaper. He moved to California as the Mail's Los Angeles correspondent, which saw him cover four presidential elections and all the biggest US stories of the past two decades and worked until recently as the London Evening Standard’s US correspondent. He has written several books, including The Last of the Hitlers (2001), an account of how he discovered the descendants of the German dictator, and Legends: Murder, Lies and Cover-Ups (John Blake Publishing, 2016), in which he investigated some of the most famous celebrity deaths in recent history, including those of President John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and Diana, Princess of Wales. He has also written a biography of the actor Tom Hanks, The Tom Hanks Enigma, and two novels. He divides his time between the UK and LA.