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Michael Finkel is a journalist and memoirist who has written books about true stories of crime, slavery, and isolation. He was fired from The New York Times for creating a composite character in a 2001 article, and later interviewed a murderer who used his name as an alias.
Michael Finkel is a writer and journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries for magazines such as The New York Times, National Geographic, and Skiing. He is the author of True Story, a book about his identity theft by a murderer, and The Stranger in the Woods, a book about a man who lived alone in a tent for 10,000 days.
Official site for the journalist and author of "The Art Thief", "The Stranger in the Woods" and "True Story".
Apr 17, 2015 · Michael Finkel is a former New York Times journalist who fabricated a story on child slavery in Africa and later interviewed a murderer who assumed his identity. He wrote a memoir and a book about the case, which inspired the film True Story starring James Franco and Jonah Hill.
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Jun 17, 2020 · Maybe so in the case of the movie True Story, based on the real case of Christian Longo, accused murderer of his wife and three children, and Michael Finkel, the disgraced journalist whose...
Jun 24, 2023 · In a new book, Michael Finkel tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, “perhaps the most successful and prolific art thief who has ever lived.”
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Jul 21, 2023 · Michael Finkel details an audacious series of heists, and their compelling aftermath, in ‘The Art Thief’. At first blush, the journalist Michael Finkel’s captivating new book, “ The Art...