Michael Wolff (journalist)

Michael Wolff
Wolff in 2024
Born	(1953-08-27) August 27, 1953 (age 71) Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	Vassar College Columbia University (BA)
Notable works	Burn Rate Fire and Fury
Notable awards	National Magazine Award Mirror Award

Michael Wolff (born 1953) is an American journalist, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ. He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.

On January 5, 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published, containing unflattering descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. The book quickly became a New York Times number-one bestseller and was the first of four books about Trump in power, the others being Siege (2019), Landslide (2021) and All or Nothing (2025).