About the author
Michael Finkel is an American journalist and author whose nonfiction centres people living outside ordinary rules and the moral complications created when a reporter becomes close to a subject.
True Story examined identity and deception, The Stranger in the Woods followed a long-isolated hermit, and The Art Thief recounts Stéphane Breitwieser’s theft of hundreds of objects from European museums.
Where to start
Start with The Art Thief for a fast account of compulsion and museum theft, or The Stranger in the Woods for Finkel’s portrait of radical solitude.
