Michael Finkel Biography
Michael Finkel is a journalist and memoirist who worked for The New York Times. Finkel and photographer John Stanmeyer received the National Magazine Award for photojournalism in 2008.
Michael Finkel Age
He was born in 1969 in the United States of America. Michael is 54 years old as of 2023.
Michael Finkel Family
He has not yet disclosed any information about his parents or whether he has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public.
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Michael Finkel Career
Finkel worked for The New York Times until 2002, when he was caught using interviews with various persons to create a composite protagonist, Youssouf Malé, for a piece he wrote about the Arab slave trade in Africa, “Is Youssouf Malé A Slave?” Finkel had presented a story about child slavery to The New York Times, but his further reporting revealed no evidence of servitude, despite encountering minors working for little salaries in harsh conditions. The story Finkel submitted purported to profile Youssouf Malé, an adolescent West African kid who sold himself into slavery on an Ivory Coast cocoa plantation.
The published version of the narrative featured images, one of which was identified as belonging to Malé. Following publication, a Save the Children employee called Finkel to inform him that the boy pictured was not Malé. When his editors questioned him, Finkel revealed that the youngster portrayed in the piece was a composite of many youths he had interviewed, including one named Youssouf Malé. Finkel was later dismissed. After being fired from The New York Times, Finkel discovered that Christian Longo, an Oregon man who murdered his wife and three children in December 2001, had used the identity “Michael Finkel” during his several weeks on the run. Finkel corresponded with Longo after his capture the following month.
Michael Finkel Books
He has written the books True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa (2005), The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (2017), and The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (2023). Finkel is also the author of The Stranger in the Woods, which chronicles the story of Christopher Thomas Knight, a hermit who lived alone for 27 years in the woods near North Pond in Maine.
Finkel Net Worth
Finkel has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.