Michael Finkel

Michael Finkel is a journalist and memoirist who writes non-fiction about criminals and people living on the margins of society. He is best known for The Stranger in the Woods, about Christopher Knight, a man who lived alone in the Maine woods for years, and The Art Thief, a true crime account of an art thief. His memoir True Story recounts his strange relationship with the killer Christian Longo, who had taken his identity, and was adapted into a 2015 film in which Jonah Hill played Finkel.