David Brooks is a Canadian-American conservative political commentator who was born on August 11, 1961, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born to Jewish parents in Canada but grew up in the middle-class housing development Stuyvesant Town in Lower Manhattan, New York. Brooks' father taught English literature at New York University and his mother studied British history at Columbia University. He attended Grace Church School as a child and when he turned 12, he moved with his family to Philadelphia where he graduated Radnor High School in 1979. Brooks went on to attend the University of Chicago where he graduated with a degree in history. He would often write reviews and other pieces for the university's publication. Upon graduating, Brooks took a job as a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago. Brooks credits his experience writing about Chicago's crime for helping him become conservative. In 1984, Brooks landed an internship at Buckley's National Review.
In 1986, he was hired to be an editor for The Wall Street Journal. Brooks also went on to write for the Weekly Standard after its launch in 1994 before ultimately landing at The New York Times. He married his first wife Jane Hughes while they were both attending the University of Chicago. They divorced in 2013 after having three children together. Four years later, Brooks married Anne Snyder who is 23 years younger than him.
| Birth Date: | 11 Aug, 1961 |
| Age: | 58 yrs |
| Occupations: | Editor Pundit Journalist |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Toronto |
| residence: | Washington, D.C. |
| Education: | University of Chicago |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American journalist, commentator and editor |
| Net Worth 2021: | 75 million |
