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Michael Finkel

Michael Finkel
MICHAEL FINKEL is the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit and True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.


The Bizarre, True Story of the World’s Greatest Living Art Thief

Is Stealing a Work of Art Ever Excusable? One Master Thief Claims Yes
June 27, 2023  By Michael Finkel
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A Man Who Spent 27 Years Alone in the Woods on the Best of Hermit Literature

What Christopher Knight Read From His Nylon Tent in Central Maine
May 2, 2017  By Michael Finkel
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