BIOGRAPHY

A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, writer, and entrepreneur, Manuela Hoelterhoff was the Executive Editor of Muse, the arts and culture section of Bloomberg News. She supervised a team of reporters, columnists, photographers and editors whose work covered arts, auctions, dining, wine, books, movies, TV, theater autos, gadgets, travel, music, architecture, design and philanthropy for the Bloomberg Professional Service and Bloomberg.com/muse.

Prior to Bloomberg she worked at The Wall Street Journal as a critic, editor and member of the editorial board. She helped launch Conde Nast Traveler in 1987 and Smart Money Magazine in 1992.

At The Wall Street Journal she wrote on a variety of topics over the years — art, architecture, television, books, travel and politics. In 1983, she received the Pulitzer Prize for her columns. She is also the author of `Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera With Cecilia Bartoli.’’

She wrote the libretto for David Lang’s `Modern Painters’, an opera about the Victoria tastemaker John Ruskin that was staged at the Santa Fe Opera.