Mark Seal is the author of several nonfiction books, including The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, about the audacious con artist and convicted murderer who called himself Clark Rockefeller, and Wildflower, about the extraordinary life and brutal killing of the pioneering wildlife filmmaker Joan Root in Africa. A journalist of more than forty years, he is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, where he has written about crime, scandals, and other topics since 2000. His 2016 Vanity Fair story on the biggest burglary in British history, in which a gang of supposedly retired elderly London criminals broke into a vault in London's Hatton Garden diamond district, was the basis of the 2018 film King of Thieves, starring Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, and Michael Gambon.