Nina Munk

Nina Munk, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, is an American journalist and author. Her books include
The Idealist Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
and
Fools Rush In: Steve Case Jerry Levin and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner
.Formerly a senior writer at Fortune, and before that a senior editor at Forbes, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Fortune. Among other literary prizes, she has been awarded three Business Journalist of the Year Awards and three Front Page Awards. Her article "Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard," published in Vanity Fair, was shortlisted for the Gerald Loeb Award and is included in The Great Hangover 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair.Born in Canada and raised in Switzerland, Munk lives in New York. She earned a B.A. in comparative literature from Smith College, an M.A. in French literature and language from Middlebury College, and 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.