Diana B. Henriques is an award-winning financial journalist and contributing writer for The New York Times, where she has worked 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, she 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 is the author of "The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust," a New York Times bestseller about history's largest Ponzi scheme; in May 2011, the book was optioned by HBO, which is exploring its development as a film project. Henriques is also the author of three previous books focusing on business history: "The Machinery of Greed," "Fidelity's World," and "The White Sharks of Wall Street."