David Frum is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing editor to National Review, a columnist for Canada's National Post newspaper, and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph in Great Britain and to National Public Radio in the United States. He is also the author of the new book, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, forthcoming in January from Random House.

From January 2001 to February 2002, David Frum was special assistant to President Bush for economic speechwriting.

Frum's first book, Dead Right (1994), was described by William F. Buckley as "the most refreshing ideological experience in a generation," and by Frank Rich of the New York Times as "the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement." In 1996, the Wall Street Journal acclaimed him as "one of the leading political commentators of his generation." Frum's history of the 1970s, How We Got Here, was published in January 2000. "More than any other book I know," said Michael Barone, editor of The Almanac of American Politics, "it shows how we came to be the way we are." In 2001, Judge Richard Posner's study of public intellectuals listed Frum as one of the 100 most influential minds in the United States.

Frum was born in Toronto, Canada in 1960. He received a simultaneous BA and MA in history from Yale in 1982. He was appointed a visiting lecturer in history at Yale in 1986; in 1987, he graduated cum laude from the Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Federalist Society.

Frum was an editor on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal from 1989 until 1992. In 1992-1994, Frum wrote the law column at Forbes magazine. Between 1994 and 2001, Frum was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research.

Frum lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, journalist and novelist Danielle Crittenden Frum, and their three children.