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Martin Kihn (Zambia 1950) is an American writer and digital marketer.
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Biography [link]
Martin Kihn was born in Zambia, where his parents met while working in a hospital. His South African-born father is a doctor, and his Scottish mother, a former actress, is now a drama teacher.[1] He grew up in Michigan. He has earned a BA in Theater Studies from Yale and an MBA from Columbia Business School.[2]
In the late 1990s, Kihn was Head Writer for the popular television program Pop-Up Video on MTV Networks and was nominated for an Emmy for Writing. He lost to Win Ben Stein's Money, decided to quit writing and got into business school.
Kihn's first book was an expose of the consulting agencies called "House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time" (Grand central 2005), based on the three years he spent working for a large consultancy. Kihn reemerged a few years later with a satirical memoir called Asshole: How I Got Rich and Happy by Not Giving a Shit About You (Broadway Books 2008). Film rights were sold to Warner Brothers. In last book was out in 2011. "Bad Dog: A Love Story," tells the story of a shattering personal crisis. Kihn decides to train Hola (his Bernese mountain dog) and together they earn their Canine Good Citizen from the American Kennel Club. It's a journey of redemption, as together man and dog reclaim their lives by working toward a common goal.[3]
His book "House of Lies" was greenlighted by Showtime and debuted as a series. Don Cheadle is playing Marty Kaan, an "outside the box" management consultant, loosely based on Marty Kihn himself.[4]
Personal life [link]
Kihn is married to the musician Julia Douglass.[5]
Works [link]
- House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, Grand central, 2005
- Asshole: How I Got Rich and Happy by Not Giving a Shit About You, Broadway Books, 2008
- Bad Dog: A Love Story, Pantheon, 2011
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