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Michael Finkel

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Michael Finkel is the author of "The Art Thief," "The Stranger in the Woods," and "True Story," which was adapted into a 2015 motion picture. He has reported from more than 50 countries and written for National Geographic, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives with his family in northern Utah.Michael Finkel is the author of "The Art Thief," "The Stranger in the Woods," and "True Story," which was adapted into a 2015 motion picture. He has reported from more than 50 countries and written for National Geographic, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives with his family in northern Utah....more

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Finkel, Michael 1969(?)–

PERSONAL: Born c. 1969. Education: Attended University of Pennsylvania.

ADDRESSES: Home—Bozeman, MT. Agent—c/o Author Mail, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 E. 53rd St., 7th Fl., New York, NY 10022.

CAREER: Writer and journalist.

WRITINGS:

Alpine Circus: A Skier's Exotic Adventures at the Snowy Edge of the World (autobiographical stories), Lyons Press (New York, NY), 1999.

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa (nonfiction), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to periodicals such as National Geographic Adventure, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Skiing, Audubon, Outside, Women's Sports and Fitness, Sports Illustrated, Ski, and New York Times Magazine.

ADAPTATIONS: True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa was adapted for audiocassette, read by the author, Harper Audio, 2005.

SIDELIGHTS: Writer and journalist Michael Finkel is an outdoorsman and ski enthusiast who frequently writes about skiing and related topics. During the 1990s, Finkel was a prominent contributor to numerous publications, chief among them the

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Michael Finkel

American journalist and memoirist

Michael Finkel (born 1969) is a journalist and memoirist, who has written the books True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa (2005), The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (2017), and The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (2023) about Stéphane Breitwieser.

Career

Finkel was a writer for The New York Times until 2002, when he was discovered to have created a composite protagonist for a story on the Arab slave trade within Africa.^[1] The story published in 2001, titled "Is Youssouf Malé A Slave?" purported to profile an adolescent West African boy, Youssouf Malé, who had sold himself into slavery on a cocoa plantation in the Ivory Coast. The story as published included photographs, including one described as being that of Malé. However, after publication, an official from Save the Children contacted Finkel to say that the boy pictured was not Malé. Upon questioning by his editors, Finkel admitted that the boy profiled in the article was