Michael Finkel
Author of True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Michael Finkel is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Stranger in the Woods, about a highly intelligent man who lived alone in the forest of Maine for 27 years. As well as the book True Story, about Finkel’s bizarre and unhealthy friendship with a murderer, which was adapted into a 2015 major motion picture produced by Brad Pitt and starring James Franco and Jonah Hill.
Finkel has reported from more than fifty countries across six continents, covering topics ranging from the world’s last hunter-gatherer tribes to conflicts in Afghanistan and Israel to the international black market in human organs to theoretical physics. His work has appeared in National Geographic, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives with his family in the western United States and southern France.