Diana B. Henriques is a senior financial 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 four books, her latest is titled, The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, in which she conducts exclusive, in-prison interviews with Bernie Madoff.