Diana Henriques

Diana B. Henriques, the author of the New York Times best-seller The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, has been a writer for The New York Times since 1989. She was previously a staff writer for Barron's magazine, a Wall Street correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an investigative reporter for The Trenton (N.J.) Times.

In 2005, Henriques was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting and Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for her 2004 series exposing insurance and investment rip-offs of young military consumers. She was also a member of The New York Times team that was a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of the 2008 financial crisis.

In May 2011, HBO optioned The Wizard of Lies and engaged Henriques as a consultant to help develop the book into a film. HBO is currently in discussions with Robert DeNiro about starring in the title role. Henriques is also the author of three previous books: The Machinery of Greed, Fidelity's World and The White Sharks of Wall Street. She is a graduate of George Washington University.