Max Hastings

Sir Max Hastings FRSL FRHistS
Hastings in 2013
Born	Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (1945-12-28) 28 December 1945 (age 78) Lambeth, London, England
Education	University College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	Journalist, editor, author
Employers	BBC Evening Standard The Daily Telegraph
Spouses	Patricia Edmondson ​ ​ (m. 1972; div. 1994)​ Penelope Levinson ​ ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	3
Parents	Macdonald Hastings (father) Anne Scott-James (mother)
Relatives	Clare Hastings (sister)

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings FRSL FRHistS (/ˈheɪstɪŋz/; born 28 December 1945)^[1] is a British journalist and military historian,^[2] who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times.