Diana B. Henriques is the author of ‘The White Sharks of Wall Street’ and ‘Fidelity’s World.’ She is a senior financial writer for The New York Times, having joined the Times staff in 1989.
A Polk Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Henriques has won several awards for her work on the Times’ coverage of the Madoff scandal and was part of the team recognized as a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of the financial crisis of 2008. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Books in order of publication:
The Machinery of Greed: Public Authority Abuse and What to Do About It, Lexington Books, 1986.
Fidelity’s World: The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant, Scribners, 1995.
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and The Death of Trust (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2011.
First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History, 2017.
Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism, 2023.
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