Michael Wolff | |
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Born | Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. | August 27, 1953
Education | Vassar College Columbia University (BA) |
Notable works | Burn Rate Fire and Fury |
Notable awards | National Magazine Award Mirror Award |
Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953)[1] is an American journalist, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ.[2] He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.
On January 5, 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published, containing unflattering descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.[3] The book quickly became a New York Times number-one bestseller[4] and became the first of a trilogy about Trump in power, the other two books being Siege (2019) and Landslide (2021).[5]