Nina Munk is a prize-winning journalist based in New York City. Among other honors and awards, Munk has won three Business Journalist of the Year Awards, including the grand prize for “most outstanding winner of all categories,” and two Front Page Awards for her profile of the economist Jeffrey Sachs and for her investigation of corruption among Wall Street analysts. Her book Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner has been described by critics as a “tour de force” and “an addictive read.” The New York Times Book Review lauded Fools Rush In for its “exemplary reporting” and its “lively, lucid writing.”

Since 2001, Munk has been a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. Her articles have appeared not only in Vanity Fair, but also in the The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Fortune, and Forbes. Before joining Vanity Fair, Munk was a Senior Writer at Fortune and, before that, a Senior Editor at Forbes.

Her latest book is The Art of Clairtone: The Making of a Design Icon, 1958–1971, was published in 2008. She is currently working on a book about the crusade to end extreme poverty in Africa: Tentatively called Bending History, it will be published by Doubleday.

Born in Canada and raised in Switzerland, Nina Munk lives in New York City with her husband, their two children, and a Brittany named Mack. She has a Bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Smith College and a Master’s degree in French language and literature from Middlebury College. She earned a second Master’s, with honors, from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where she was awarded the Philip Greer Scholarship Award for Financial Writing, and the New York Financial Writers’ Association C. Norman Stabler Scholarship.

When she is not writing articles and books, Munk works on Urbanhound: The Ultimate Survival Guide for City Dogs, a Web site she started in June 2000. The site has been named “Best of the Web” by Forbes and “Best in Show” by Entertainment Weekly.