Michael Wolff (journalist)

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Michael Wolff (2009)

Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953 in New Jersey ) is an American author , essayist and journalist . He writes regularly for USA Today , The Hollywood Reporter and the UK edition of GQ .

He became known worldwide through the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , published in early 2018 , which was published in German in February 2018 under the title Feuer und Zorn .

Life

Wolff grew up in a Jewish family. His father Lewis A. Wolff worked in advertising, his mother Marguerite "Van" (Vanderwerf) Wolff (1925–2012) was a newspaper reporter. Wolff studied at Columbia College at Columbia University in New York City and also worked as an errand boy for the New York Times .

His first magazine article appeared in the New York Times Magazine in 1974 : a portrait of Patty Hearst kidnapper Angela Atwood , who lived in his neighborhood. Shortly thereafter, he left the Times and worked as a freelancer for the bi-weekly news magazine New Times .

In 1979 he published his first book, White Kids , a collection of essays, and received an advance payment to write a novel, which he never completed. Instead, he became a media entrepreneur.

In 1988 Wolff took over the management of Campaigns & Elections magazine . He also advised start-ups, including Wired , and was involved in financing for media companies. In 1991 Wolff founded a company for book packaging . His first project, Where We Stand , was the companion book to a PBS series. The next major project was one of the first internet guideposts: Net Guide , published by Random House . When this title appeared as a monthly magazine, it was taken over by the computer magazine publisher CMP Media .

Michael Wolff was married to the New York lawyer Alison Anthoine until 2014. They have three children together. Another daughter comes from the relationship with the author Victoria Floethe.

Books

Audio books

Reviews

Web links

Commons : Michael Wolff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolff, Michael, 1953-. In: Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ author: Michael Wolff .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. British GQ, accessed January 6, 2018.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gq-magazine.co.uk  
  3. ↑ Margaret Hartmann: Trump Tries to Stop Publication of Wolff Book, Hits Bannon With Cease-and-Desist. In: New York Magazine (NYMag) . January 4, 2018, accessed January 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ Trump disclosure book will be published in Germany on February 19. In: Börsenblatt . January 8, 2018, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ben Welch: Was The Fire and the Fury author Michael Wolff lying about Tony Blair's Trump job? ( English ) The Jewish Chronicle . February 26, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  6. ^ Marguerite Wolff Obituary. In: The Record / Herald News. Replayed on North Jersey News and Information | NorthJersey.com, September 20, 2012, accessed January 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ ISBN 0-440-22390-3
  8. ↑ dailymail.co.uk: New York media critic Michael Wolff 'divorcing wife without even telling her'
  9. ^ Nytimes.com: Michael Wolff, From Local Media Scourge to National Newsmaker
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, essayist, and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey