Michelle Young

We talked about writing, about WWII, their grandparents who are veterans, about immigration & where their parents & grandparents come from & even about rotary telephones! ☎️ It’s so easy to get kids excited about reading and learning. I’m honored to be part of the movement to get kids reading again!

I also passed around my own book The Art Spy, as well as The Wonder City graphic novels by my friends Justin Rivers and courtneyzellart, and a graphic novel about my resistance heroine Rose Valland by Louvre historian Emmanuelle Polack.

For Read Across America Week I went to read to my daughter’s 2nd grade class. As an author I felt a responsibility to convey how fun reading & writing is. I read 3 books: Five Stories by Ellen Weinstein, The Book with No Pictures by
@bjnovak.bsky.social & one on Taiwan where my parents are from

I do love a great bookstack. Great to see The Art Spy in @HarperCollins.bsky.social Women's History Month book picks!

Check It Out: Heroic women abounded in WWII March is Women’s History Month, and we are surrounded by histories of outstanding women.

Thank you to the Columbian magazine for highlighting The Art Spy for its Women's History Month book picks! buff.ly/f4nDwd2

New Nonfiction to Read This Women's History Month Each year, in honor of Women's History Month, we like to pull together some kind of curated collection featuring nonfiction books on women's hist...

The Art Spy is on Goodreads' list of nonfiction reads for Women's History Month! Excited to see books by friends incl Sisterhood of Ravensbrook (Lynne Olson), Wild for Austen (Devoney Looser), Woman of War (Suzanne Cope), Paris Undercover (Matthew Goodman)

The Pneumatic Tube Network that Connected the NYSE - Podcasts - New York Stock Exchange - An Ice Exchange Long before fiber optics and wireless networks, bursts of compressed air kept Wall Street moving. NYSE curator Dave D’Onofrio goes Inside the ICE House with archivist Anna Melo and urban historian Mic...

Gigi Hadid, Sydney Sweeney and...me! What do we have in common? We've all been at the New York Stock Exchange recently! Here I am speaking on their podcast about my FAVORITE TOPIC of all time: the NYC pneumatic tube mail system tv.nyse.com/podcasts/vid...

The styling for Love Story about JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette is spot on. I worked at Calvin Klein in the 2000s as a fashion merchandiser. We were only allowed to use black paper clips and white Post It notes. We could only receive white flowers, preferably orchids. Black desks, chairs, hangers...

History Series: Trailblazing Women Who Transformed Finance and Created a New Wall Street Inside the ICE House · Episode

Catch me on the New York Stock Exchange podcast talking about the women who transformed finance! Also on Spotify: buff.ly/qZi9sSb
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What an honor! The Art Spy is a finalist for the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. I’m in amazing company, including my friend Christopher Gorham, author of Matisse at War, a book I blurbed! We'll also both be at the Savannah Book Festival this weekend!

From Undercover Reporter to Tokyo Vice: Jake Adelstein’s Life Inside Japan’s Crime World YouTube video by I'll Get The Tip

It was fun watching @tokyovice.bsky.social & @michelleyoung.bsky.social in this interview! I can’t wait to meet you both one day! Thank you Jake for mentioning the blog and I! 🥳

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From Undercover Reporter to Tokyo Vice: Jake Adelstein’s Life Inside Japan’s Crime World YouTube video by I'll Get The Tip

I've been doing a lot of podcasting and the episodes are out! First up: me and advertising legend Peter Friedman interviewing another legend: undercover yakuza reporter and crypto expert @tokyovice.bsky.social on I'll Get The Tip www.youtube.com/watch?v=46lD...

Amazon.com. 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 world's most treasured masterpieces.

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Excited to share that The Art Spy was named to the Texas Library Association's 2026 Texas Topaz Reading List! "It’s a story about courage, persistence, and how one person’s quiet actions made a lasting impact on history."

14 years ago I was cast in Steven Soderbergh's film Side Effects w/ Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta. Soderbergh wanted a cellist for a scene. I had my own trailer, hair & makeup & got to work 1 on 1 with Soderbergh! Discovered unpaid royalties today updating my SAG address!

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Finding all these love notes after the holidays is making me so happy!

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A good book will help keep winter’s chill away - Jewish Community Voice When it’s too cold to go out in the evening, grab a cozy chair and a warm drink and settle in with a good book. We’re still working our way through all the new fiction that has recently arrived. Why…

Thank you to Jewish Community Voices for recommending The Art Spy in these cold months! "In this well-written book, Young gives Valland the recognition she deserves. “The Art Spy” is non-fiction that reads like fiction." buff.ly/kXciMFE

How do you get kids these days to read? Read together & lead by example. Their self-prompted reading sesh:
Charlotte: Harper's Bazaar
Emma: Taking in the Picasso MoMA retrospective (she has opinions! 😂)
Me: Reading about crypto crime in Japan (The Devil Takes Bitcoin) by @tokyovice.bsky.social

On this 250th anniversary of #JaneAusten's birth, here is my mom's copy of Pride & Prejudice that she gave me when I was 8. I loved it so much, I got in trouble with my 4th grade teacher for reading it under my desk! Well Mrs. F, I am now an author myself! Also don't miss Wild for Austen!

haha!! I brought it back for the Lit Salon series I hosted the last two years...need to find another reason to play!

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Our Favorite Art Books of 2025 This year, we read too many incredible books to count — here are a few that stuck with us, including tomes on Marsha P. Johnson, Mary Cassatt in Paris, and Ruth Asawa and mothering.

I've been eagerly awaiting the Best of 2025 Art Books list from @hyperallergic and so pleased that The Art Spy is on it! Love this publication!

Here's a first! I'm on CSPAN! The other day Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate popped by for dinner as we do in the Berkshires & said, "Did I just see you on CPAN?" She was right! Here's my talk for History Book Festival w/ Molly Giordano of the Delaware Art Museum www.c-span.org/program/amer...

Honored to have The Art Spy make it onto @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Best Books 2025 list! buff.ly/e6z75D6