Michelle Young is an author and journalist.

Michelle is the author of the forthcoming non-fiction book The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland from HarperOne, an imprint of Harper Collins. She is the founder of Untapped New York and the author of Secret Brooklyn, Secret New York: Hidden Bars and Restaurants, and Broadway.

Michelle is a professor of architecture at Columbia University GSAPP and an instructor at CUNY School of Journalism.

Michelle is represented by Peter Steinberg at United Talent Agency (UTA), Emma Jamison at Curtis Brown (foreign rights), and Rich Green at Gotham Group (film/TV).

Books

  • The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

    A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, THE ART SPY uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West.

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  • Secret Brooklyn

    Discover 150 of Brooklyn’s most unique places. Find secret museums, go on an urban safari for wild parrots, locate a landmarked tree, enter the oldest building in New York City, watch a performance of robots in a church, and more.

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  • Secret New York: Hidden Bars & Restaurants

    An absolute must-have guide to enjoy the amazing, hidden New York City bar and restaurant scene. A dinner in a dumpster, a dim-sum restaurant that turns into a nightclub, New York's “most legitimate speakeasy”, a Swiss ski chalet accessed through a kitchen, a referral-only Japanese restaurant, restaurants inside freight entrances & more!

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Writing

  • "How a Gauguin Painting Went from Real, to Lost, to Fake" (Hyperallergic)

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  • "Chamber Pots and Candlelight: Meet the Families Who Live Off the Grid on a Remote French Island" (Narratively)

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  • "The Richard Serra Sculpture That Was Just Too Much for Paris" (Hyperallergic)

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TV & Film

  • The Engineering that Built the World (History Channel)

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  • Searching for Secrets (Smithsonian Channel)

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  • Stay Here (Netflix)

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Photography

  • Michelle's photography appears in Where in the World is the Berlin Wall

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  • Michelle's photography appears in the Netflix documentary "Pretend It's a City" with Fran Leibowitz and Martin Scorsese

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  • Michelle's photography on Villa Savoye appears in the Wall Street Journal

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