Michael Grunwald is a best-selling author and a widely acclaimed journalist who has covered government policy and politics as a staff writer for The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and Politico Magazine. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting, the Society of Environment Journalists award for in-depth reporting, and many other honors.
Over three decades in journalism, Mike has written scores of magazine cover stories, about everything from Time's Man of the Year to all the ways the government subsidizes his own family, and thousands of newspaper stories, including the Post’s lead news story about the September 11 attacks. He’s covered the environment, the economy, Congress, and New York City; he's worked as a reporter, feature writer, columnist, and essayist.
In 2006, Simon & Schuster published Mike’s first book, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. It was praised as “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “magnificent” (The Palm Beach Post), and “terrific” (The New York Times). In August 2012, S&S published his second book, The New New Deal: The Hidden History of Change in the Obama Era. It received similar raves—The Economist and The Guardian both declared it the best book about the Obama administration—and made the New York Times best-seller list. In 2025, S&S will publish his third book, We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.
Mike is married to Cristina Dominguez, a former lawyer turned mind-body-spirit healer. They live in Miami with their son, Max, their daughter, Lina, and their clinically insane dogs, Cookie, Wags, and Wim.
