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Nina Munk

May 04, 2023

Nina Munk (born 1967) is a Canadian-American journalist and non-fiction author. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair,[1] and the author or co-author of four books, including The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty[2] and Fools Rush In: Jerry Levin, Steve Case, and the Unmaking of Time Warner.[3] As well, she is the editor of the critical English translation of How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, an influential account of the Holocaust in Hungary written by Erno Munkacsi in 1947.[4] According to Publishers Marketplace, Munk is working on a new book for Alfred A. Knopf titled In My Dreams, We Are Together about "her family in Hungary during the Holocaust".[5]

Background

Munk was born in Canada to the entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Munk and University of Toronto professor Linda Munk.[6] She spent her childhood in Switzerland's Berner Oberland before moving to Toronto for high school. She received a B.A. in comparative literature from Smith College[7] in 1988, an M.A. in French literature and language from Middlebury College in 1989, and, in 1992, an M.S. with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was awarded the Philip Greer Memorial Scholarship for outstanding business and financial journalism. Munk is married to the artist Peter Soriano, with whom she owns a townhouse in New York City.[8]

Career

Munk was the 2020-2021 John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, where she worked on "a book of narrative nonfiction set against the backdrop of the Holocaust in Hungary."[9] The book has since been purchased by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Faber and Faber in the U.K.[10]

Munk's work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Forbes, and Fortune. Before joining Vanity Fair as a contributing editor, she was a senior writer at Fortune and a senior editor at Forbes. Among other honors, she has won three Business Journalist of the Year Awards and three Front Page Awards. Her article "Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard", published in Vanity Fair, was nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award and was included in two published collections, The Great Hangover: 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair and Schools for Scandal: The Inside Dramas at 16 of America's Most Elite Campuses.[11]

Munk's 2013 book The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty received a great deal of attention[12] for its critical exploration of our "well-intentioned but ultimately naive theories about ending poverty in Africa,"[13] to quote Publishers Weekly. Even before it was published, the book was the subject of Joe Nocera's New York Times column in which he noted that Munk's reporting "caused her to become disillusioned, and humbled, by the difficulties that any Western aid effort is likely to encounter."[14]

The Idealist has been named a finalist for the National Business Book Award and the 2013 Governor General's Awards, and longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. It was selected as a "Book of the Year" by The Spectator,[15] Forbes,[16] Bloomberg,[17] and Amazon.ca,[18] and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews. In his review, Bill Gates remarks: "I've told everyone at our foundation that I think it is worth taking the time to read it. It's a valuable—and, at times, heartbreaking—cautionary tale."[19] Foreign Policy magazine recognized The Idealist with a 2013 Albie Award, remarking: "Writing accessibly about development economics is a high-wire act, but Munk accomplishes it brilliantly."[20] In the Wall Street Journal, James Traub refers to Munk's "impressive persistence, unflagging empathy and journalistic derring-do", citing the depth of her on-the-ground reporting in rural Africa.[21] The economist William Easterly, reviewing the book for Barron's, calls it "one of the most readable and evocative accounts of foreign aid ever written,"[22] while Howard W. French describes The Idealist as "a devastating portrait of hubris and its consequences."[23] However, some reviewers, while complimenting Munk's "lively and at times, quite funny book," have argued that her portrayal of Sachs is overly critical—she is, to quote Erika Fry's review in Fortune, "a bit hard on Sachs."[24] Sachs himself has reportedly been dismissive of the book.[25] On his WNYC radio show, Brian Lehrer suggests that Ms. Munk is overreaching when she concludes that foreign aid has been more harmful than good.[26]

Munk's book about the merger of AOL and Time Warner, Fools Rush In: Jerry Levin, Steve Case, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner, was published by HarperCollins in 2004, one of several books that year about the ill-fated business deal. The New York Times Review of Books called it "the best [book] so far" on the subject of AOL Time Warner, noting Munk's "exemplary reporting" and "lively, lucid writing."[27] The book continues to be cited as "a cautionary tale on New Media’s last revolution," to quote MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.[28] David Carr wrote: "Of all the journalists who wrote obits for the dot-com mania, few did it with the precision and quiet glee of Nina Munk."[29]

In 2008, Munk co-wrote The Art of Clairtone: The Making of Design Icon, a coffee-table book about the celebrated Canadian stereo manufacturer Clairtone Sound Corporation, a company co-founded by her father in 1958.[30] Archival photographs, documents, and artifacts gathered for and used in The Art of Clairtone were displayed in an exhibition about Clairtone at the Design Exchange museum in 2008.[31]

As a sideline to her journalism career, Munk founded UrbanHound.com, a website for dog owners, in 2000.[32] The website led to two spin-off books: Urbanhound: The New York City Dog's Ultimate Survival Guide, co-authored by Munk in 2001;[33] and The Complete Healthy Dog Handbook, written by veterinarian Betsy Brevitz in 2009. But while Urbanhound.com was a critical success, Munk conceded to the New York Times[34] that it never made much money. In November 2009, FetchDog, an e-commerce and catalog company based in Maine, acquired UrbanHound.com from Munk for an undisclosed sum.[35]

Selected bibliography

Articles

  • Africa Rising: Harvard? Yale? Princeton? “A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya's top high-school students and connecting them with America's most competitive universities” Air Mail, 2020-10-17
  • “A First-Hand Look at Atrocity, by a ‘Privileged” Eye-Witness” The Toronto Star, 2018-12-02
  • "How Warren Buffett's Son Would Feed the World" The Atlantic, 2016-05-01
  • "The Met's Grand Gamble" "Vanity Fair, 2010-05-01
  • "Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard" Vanity Fair, 2009-08-01
  • "Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream", Vanity Fair, 2007-07-01
  • "Greenwich's Outrageous Fortunes", Vanity Fair, 2006-07-01
  • "Steve Case's New Act", The New York Times, 2005-07-12
  • "Steve Wynn's Biggest Gamble", Vanity Fair, 2005-06-01
  • "Gunslingers No More", The New York Times, 2005-05-22
  • "The Taking of Time Warner" Vanity Fair, 2004-01-01

Books

  • How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-77-355512-9)
  • The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. (Doubleday, 2013. ISBN 978-0-385-52581-7)
  • Fools Rush In: Jerry Levin, Steve Case, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner. (HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 0-06-054034-6)
  • The Art of Clairtone: The Making of Design Icon, 1958-1971. (McClelland & Stewart, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7710-6507-1)
  • The Great Hangover: 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair Magazine. (Harper Perennial, 2010. ISBN 978-0-06-196442-8)

References

  1. ^ "Vanity Fair contributor's bio for Nina Munk". Vanity Fair. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  2. ^ Amazon page for The Idealist
  3. ^ "Fools Rush". HarperCollins. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  4. ^ https://www.amazon.com/How-Happened-Documenting-Tragedy-Hungarian/dp/0773555129/ Amazon page for How It Happened
  5. ^ [Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, 2021-10-26]
  6. ^ Xu, Sam (Jul 16, 2020). "Generous gift from the family of Linda Munk to support English MA students". Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  7. ^ "Smith Alumnae Quarterly Fall 2014 Page 30". saqonline.smith.edu. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  8. ^ "VF Writer Nina Munk and Artist Peter Soriano Buy P.R. Queen’s Six-Story Townhouse," New York Observer, 03-20-12
  9. ^ "Past Fellows 2020-2021".
  10. ^ "Pinned Tweet, @ninamunk, 2021-10-28".
  11. ^ "VANITY FAIR'S SCHOOLS FOR SCANDAL | Kirkus Reviews". Retrieved Mar 16, 2023 – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  12. ^ "Eliza Villarino, "Nina Munk: Charity Works But it's Not Development," Devex, 2013-10-10". 10 October 2013. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  13. ^ "The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty," Publishers Weekly, 2013-04-29
  14. ^ Nocera, Joe (Sep 3, 2013). "Opinion | Fighting Poverty, and Critics". The New York Times. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023 – via NYTimes.com.
  15. ^ "Spectator Writers Pick Their Books of the Year," The Spectator, 2013-11-16
  16. ^ Allen, Frederick E. "The Best Books Of 2013". Forbes. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  17. ^ "Buffett, Slim, Greenspan, El-Erian, Lew Pick Best Books of 2013". Bloomberg. Dec 14, 2013. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023 – via www.bloomberg.com.
  18. ^ "Amazon.ca: fd_redirect". www.amazon.ca. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  19. ^ Gates, Bill. "A cautionary tale from Africa". gatesnotes.com. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  20. ^ ""Presenting the Albies of 2013," Foreign Policy, 2013-12-31". Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  21. ^ Traub, James. "Book Review: The Idealist". WSJ. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  22. ^ William Easterly, "The Arrogance of Good Intentions," Barron's, 2013-10-05
  23. ^ Howard W. French, "The Not-So-Great Professor: Jeffrey Sachs' Incredible Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa," Pacific Standard, 2013-09-17
  24. ^ "Ericka Fry, "Jeffrey Sachs's failed experiment in Africa," Fortune.com, 2013-10-11". Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  25. ^ "Financial Post". financialpost. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  26. ^ "Has Jeffrey Sachs Actually Helped Ease Poverty? | The Brian Lehrer Show". WNYC. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  27. ^ Liptak, Adam (Jan 18, 2004). "You've Got Travail". The New York Times. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023 – via NYTimes.com.
  28. ^ https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/america-s-future-can-feel-frightening-here-s-why-i-n1274328, Joe Scarborough, "America's future can feel frightening," MSNBC, 2021-07-19
  29. ^ "the New York Times, 2006-07-24". The New York Times. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  30. ^ Gordon Pitts, "Peter Munk: The Lesson from the Clairtone Story," The Globe and Mail, 2008-03-30
  31. ^ "The Art of Clairtone: The Making of a Design Icon, 1958-1971 set to Open at Design Exchange". artdaily.cc. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  32. ^ David Carr, "A Sideline That Competes with a Byline," the New York Times, 2006-07-26
  33. ^ Munk, Nina; Zonis, Nadia (2001). Urbanhound: The New York City Dog's Ultimate Survival Guide. ISBN 1929439180.
  34. ^ Mainland, Alexis (Sep 24, 2009). "Web Site for Dog Lovers Has Had Its Day, Creator Decides". City Room. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.
  35. ^ "Urbanhound.com is Back; The Beloved On-Line Resource for City dog Owners Announces it Has Joined forces With FetchDog". PRWeb. Retrieved Mar 16, 2023.

External links

  • Vanity Fair bio
  • Personal website
  • "Nina Munk on Poverty, Development, and the Idealist", a one-hour interview on the EconTalk podcast hosted by Russ Roberts
  • "The Quest to End Poverty: Nina Munk" on CBC Radio's The Current
  • "A Conversation with Author Nina Munk" on Charlie Rose
  • "Nina Munk speaks at Central European University, Budapest"
  • "Nina Munk Reads from The Great Hangover" at VF.com

May 04, 2023
nina, munk, born, 1967, canadian, american, journalist, fiction, author, contributing, editor, vanity, fair, author, author, four, books, including, idealist, jeffrey, sachs, quest, poverty, fools, rush, jerry, levin, steve, case, unmaking, time, warner, well,. Nina Munk born 1967 is a Canadian American journalist and non fiction author She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair 1 and the author or co author of four books including The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty 2 and Fools Rush In Jerry Levin Steve Case and the Unmaking of Time Warner 3 As well she is the editor of the critical English translation of How It Happened Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry an influential account of the Holocaust in Hungary written by Erno Munkacsi in 1947 4 According to Publishers Marketplace Munk is working on a new book for Alfred A Knopf titled In My Dreams We Are Together about her family in Hungary during the Holocaust 5 Contents 1 Background 2 Career 3 Selected bibliography 3 1 Articles 3 2 Books 4 References 5 External linksBackground EditMunk was born in Canada to the entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Munk and University of Toronto professor Linda Munk 6 She spent her childhood in Switzerland s Berner Oberland before moving to Toronto for high school She received a B A in comparative literature from Smith College 7 in 1988 an M A in French literature and language from Middlebury College in 1989 and in 1992 an M S with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was awarded the Philip Greer Memorial Scholarship for outstanding business and financial journalism Munk is married to the artist Peter Soriano with whom she owns a townhouse in New York City 8 Career EditMunk was the 2020 2021 John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the New York Public Library s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers where she worked on a book of narrative nonfiction set against the backdrop of the Holocaust in Hungary 9 The book has since been purchased by Alfred A Knopf in the U S and Faber and Faber in the U K 10 Munk s work has appeared in Vanity Fair The Atlantic The New York Times The New York Times Magazine The New Yorker Forbes and Fortune Before joining Vanity Fair as a contributing editor she was a senior writer at Fortune and a senior editor at Forbes Among other honors she has won three Business Journalist of the Year Awards and three Front Page Awards Her article Rich Harvard Poor Harvard published in Vanity Fair was nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award and was included in two published collections The Great Hangover 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair and Schools for Scandal The Inside Dramas at 16 of America s Most Elite Campuses 11 Munk s 2013 book The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty received a great deal of attention 12 for its critical exploration of our well intentioned but ultimately naive theories about ending poverty in Africa 13 to quote Publishers Weekly Even before it was published the book was the subject of Joe Nocera s New York Times column in which he noted that Munk s reporting caused her to become disillusioned and humbled by the difficulties that any Western aid effort is likely to encounter 14 The Idealist has been named a finalist for the National Business Book Award and the 2013 Governor General s Awards and longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize It was selected as a Book of the Year by The Spectator 15 Forbes 16 Bloomberg 17 and Amazon ca 18 and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews In his review Bill Gates remarks I ve told everyone at our foundation that I think it is worth taking the time to read it It s a valuable and at times heartbreaking cautionary tale 19 Foreign Policy magazine recognized The Idealist with a 2013 Albie Award remarking Writing accessibly about development economics is a high wire act but Munk accomplishes it brilliantly 20 In the Wall Street Journal James Traub refers to Munk s impressive persistence unflagging empathy and journalistic derring do citing the depth of her on the ground reporting in rural Africa 21 The economist William Easterly reviewing the book for Barron s calls it one of the most readable and evocative accounts of foreign aid ever written 22 while Howard W French describes The Idealist as a devastating portrait of hubris and its consequences 23 However some reviewers while complimenting Munk s lively and at times quite funny book have argued that her portrayal of Sachs is overly critical she is to quote Erika Fry s review in Fortune a bit hard on Sachs 24 Sachs himself has reportedly been dismissive of the book 25 On his WNYC radio show Brian Lehrer suggests that Ms Munk is overreaching when she concludes that foreign aid has been more harmful than good 26 Munk s book about the merger of AOL and Time Warner Fools Rush In Jerry Levin Steve Case and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner was published by HarperCollins in 2004 one of several books that year about the ill fated business deal The New York Times Review of Books called it the best book so far on the subject of AOL Time Warner noting Munk s exemplary reporting and lively lucid writing 27 The book continues to be cited as a cautionary tale on New Media s last revolution to quote MSNBC s Joe Scarborough 28 David Carr wrote Of all the journalists who wrote obits for the dot com mania few did it with the precision and quiet glee of Nina Munk 29 In 2008 Munk co wrote The Art of Clairtone The Making of Design Icon a coffee table book about the celebrated Canadian stereo manufacturer Clairtone Sound Corporation a company co founded by her father in 1958 30 Archival photographs documents and artifacts gathered for and used in The Art of Clairtone were displayed in an exhibition about Clairtone at the Design Exchange museum in 2008 31 As a sideline to her journalism career Munk founded UrbanHound com a website for dog owners in 2000 32 The website led to two spin off books Urbanhound The New York City Dog s Ultimate Survival Guide co authored by Munk in 2001 33 and The Complete Healthy Dog Handbook written by veterinarian Betsy Brevitz in 2009 But while Urbanhound com was a critical success Munk conceded to the New York Times 34 that it never made much money In November 2009 FetchDog an e commerce and catalog company based in Maine acquired UrbanHound com from Munk for an undisclosed sum 35 Selected bibliography EditArticles Edit Africa Rising Harvard Yale Princeton A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya s top high school students and connecting them with America s most competitive universities Air Mail 2020 10 17 A First Hand Look at Atrocity by a Privileged Eye Witness The Toronto Star 2018 12 02 How Warren Buffett s Son Would Feed the World The Atlantic 2016 05 01 The Met s Grand Gamble Vanity Fair 2010 05 01 Rich Harvard Poor Harvard Vanity Fair 2009 08 01 Jeffrey Sachs s 200 Billion Dream Vanity Fair 2007 07 01 Greenwich s Outrageous Fortunes Vanity Fair 2006 07 01 Steve Case s New Act The New York Times 2005 07 12 Steve Wynn s Biggest Gamble Vanity Fair 2005 06 01 Gunslingers No More The New York Times 2005 05 22 The Taking of Time Warner Vanity Fair 2004 01 01Books Edit How It Happened Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry McGill Queen s University Press 2018 ISBN 978 0 77 355512 9 The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty Doubleday 2013 ISBN 978 0 385 52581 7 Fools Rush In Jerry Levin Steve Case and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner HarperCollins 2004 ISBN 0 06 054034 6 The Art of Clairtone The Making of Design Icon 1958 1971 McClelland amp Stewart 2008 ISBN 978 0 7710 6507 1 The Great Hangover 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair Magazine Harper Perennial 2010 ISBN 978 0 06 196442 8 References Edit Vanity Fair contributor s bio for Nina Munk Vanity Fair Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Amazon page for The Idealist Fools Rush HarperCollins Retrieved Mar 16 2023 https www amazon com How Happened Documenting Tragedy Hungarian dp 0773555129 Amazon page for How It Happened Publishers Marketplace Deal Report 2021 10 26 Xu Sam Jul 16 2020 Generous gift from the family of Linda Munk to support English MA students Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Smith Alumnae Quarterly Fall 2014 Page 30 saqonline smith edu Retrieved Mar 16 2023 VF Writer Nina Munk and Artist Peter Soriano Buy P R Queen s Six Story Townhouse New York Observer 03 20 12 Past Fellows 2020 2021 Pinned Tweet ninamunk 2021 10 28 VANITY FAIR S SCHOOLS FOR SCANDAL Kirkus Reviews Retrieved Mar 16 2023 via www kirkusreviews com Eliza Villarino Nina Munk Charity Works But it s Not Development Devex 2013 10 10 10 October 2013 Retrieved Mar 16 2023 The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty Publishers Weekly 2013 04 29 Nocera Joe Sep 3 2013 Opinion Fighting Poverty and Critics The New York Times Retrieved Mar 16 2023 via NYTimes com Spectator Writers Pick Their Books of the Year The Spectator 2013 11 16 Allen Frederick E The Best Books Of 2013 Forbes Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Buffett Slim Greenspan El Erian Lew Pick Best Books of 2013 Bloomberg Dec 14 2013 Retrieved Mar 16 2023 via www bloomberg com Amazon ca fd redirect www amazon ca Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Gates Bill A cautionary tale from Africa gatesnotes com Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Presenting the Albies of 2013 Foreign Policy 2013 12 31 Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Traub James Book Review The Idealist WSJ Retrieved Mar 16 2023 William Easterly The Arrogance of Good Intentions Barron s 2013 10 05 Howard W French The Not So Great Professor Jeffrey Sachs Incredible Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa Pacific Standard 2013 09 17 Ericka Fry Jeffrey Sachs s failed experiment in Africa Fortune com 2013 10 11 Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Financial Post financialpost Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Has Jeffrey Sachs Actually Helped Ease Poverty The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Liptak Adam Jan 18 2004 You ve Got Travail The New York Times Retrieved Mar 16 2023 via NYTimes com https www msnbc com msnbc america s future can feel frightening here s why i n1274328 Joe Scarborough America s future can feel frightening MSNBC 2021 07 19 the New York Times 2006 07 24 The New York Times Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Gordon Pitts Peter Munk The Lesson from the Clairtone Story The Globe and Mail 2008 03 30 The Art of Clairtone The Making of a Design Icon 1958 1971 set to Open at Design Exchange artdaily cc Retrieved Mar 16 2023 David Carr A Sideline That Competes with a Byline the New York Times 2006 07 26 Munk Nina Zonis Nadia 2001 Urbanhound The New York City Dog s Ultimate Survival Guide ISBN 1929439180 Mainland Alexis Sep 24 2009 Web Site for Dog Lovers Has Had Its Day Creator Decides City Room Retrieved Mar 16 2023 Urbanhound com is Back The Beloved On Line Resource for City dog Owners Announces it Has Joined forces With FetchDog PRWeb Retrieved Mar 16 2023 External links EditVanity Fair bio Personal website Nina Munk on Poverty Development and the Idealist a one hour interview on the EconTalk podcast hosted by Russ Roberts The Quest to End Poverty Nina Munk on CBC Radio s The Current A Conversation with Author Nina Munk on Charlie Rose Nina Munk speaks at Central European University Budapest Nina Munk Reads from The Great Hangover at VF com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nina Munk amp oldid 1151819230, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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