The Art Thief [Audio Cassette]

Noah Charney (Author), Simon Vance (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (October 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1433203707
• ISBN-13: 978-1433203701
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,706,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Noah Charney holds advanced degrees in art history from The Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University. He is the founding director of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit think tank and consultancy group on issues in art crime (www.artcrime.info). His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such forums as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, BBC Radio, and National Public Radio, among others. Charney is the author of numerous articles, works of non-fiction, and an internationally best-selling novel, "The Art Thief" (Atria 2007), currently translated into sixteen languages. He is the editor of "Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World" (Praeger 2009), and the author of a series of art history guides to Spanish museums entitled "Museum Time," published in Spanish and English (Planeta 2010). He published "Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True History of the World's Most Frequently Stolen Masterpiece" with PublicAffairs in 2010. This critically-acclaimed work of non-fiction is an international best-seller. His latest book is "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the World's Most Famous Painting," all profits from which support charity. He lives in Italy, and is currently Adjunct Professor of Art History at the American University of Rome.