The Author David Benioff

The author of The City of Thieves is David Benioff. On top of being a book author, he is also a screenwriter. He wrote his first novel, The 25th Hour, while working as a high school English teacher and he soon adapted it into a screenplay. He is currently the head writer and show runner for the popular HBO series Game of Thrones. David Benioff was born on September 25, 1970 and on September 30, 2006 he married actress Amanda Peet in New York City and they now have two daughters, Frances and Molly. He is the youngest of three children and was born with the last name Friedman, his father's last name, but in his late thirties he changed it to Benioff which was his mother's maiden name. I thought it was interesting that his family is of German Jewish and Russian Jewish descent and in the book I am reading by him, the two main characters are Russian. One of them, Lev, is also Jewish and both of them are fighting against the German Nazis.