
Michael Finkel
Author · 6 books
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 and southern France.
Books

Here Be Monsters… 50 Days Adrift At Sea
2011

The Art Thief
2023

Alpine Circus
A Skier's Exotic Adventures at the Snowy Edge of the World
1999

True Story
Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
2005

The Stranger in the Woods
The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
2017

Le voleur d'art - Dans la tête d'un kleptomane esthète
2025