Manuela Vali Hoelterhoff is currently executive editor for Global Cities and a writer on a broad range of cultural topics. Hoelterhoff joined Bloomberg in 2004 when her own Muse News was incorporated into Bloomberg News to cover books and culture. 

Born in Hamburg, Germany, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Hoelterhoff has written on art, architecture, books, music, science and travel. Her first articles appeared in William F. Buckley’s National Review, followed by reviews in The Wall Street Journal, where she spent almost two decades as arts editor, books editor and a member of the editorial board.

In 1998, she published Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera With Cecilia Bartoli (Alfred A. Knopf), which was translated into French, German and Dutch and voted one of the best books of the year by the New York Times.

Modern Painters, her libretto about John Ruskin, the Victorian tastemaker and early environmentalist, was set to music by David Lang and presented at the Santa Fe Opera in 1995. 

She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for her forthcoming book, Hitler’s Summer Seasons.

The Carnegie Corporation featured her in 2014’s honor list of prominent immigrants.