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Michael Lewis
Lewis in 2009
Born	Michael Monroe Lewis[1] (1960-10-15) October 15, 1960 (age 58)[2] New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation	Non-fiction writer, journalist
Alma mater	Isidore Newman School Princeton University London School of Economics
Period	1989–present
Notable works	Liar's Poker (1989) Moneyball (2003) The Blind Side (2006) The Big Short (2010) Flash Boys (2014) The Undoing Project (2016)
Spouse	Diane de Cordova Lewis (m. 1985) Kate Bohner (m. 1994) Tabitha Soren (m. 1997)

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American financial journalist and bestselling non-fiction author.^[3] He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009.

Early life

Lewis was born in New Orleans, the son of corporate lawyer J. Thomas Lewis and community activist Diana Monroe Lewis.^[4] He attended Princeton University, where he earned a cum laude bachelor's degree in art history in 1982 and was a member of the Ivy Club.^[1] He worked with New York City art dealer Daniel Wildenstein for a short while. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Lewis shared that his initial ambition was to become an art historian, but he was quickly dissuaded once he realized that there were no jobs available for art historians, and even the handful would not pay much.^[5]

Lewis subsequently enrolled at the London School of Economics and received an MA in economics in 1985.^[6][7] Lewis was hired by Salomon Brothers, stayed for a while in New York for their training program, and then relocated to London where he worked at Salomon's London office as a bond salesman for a few years.^[8]

Writing

Lewis described his experiences at Salomon and the evolution of the mortgage-backed bond in Liar's Poker (1989). In The New New Thing (1999), he investigated the then-booming Silicon Valley and discussed obsession with innovation. Four years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball (2003), in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's. In August 2007, he wrote an article about catastrophe bonds, titled "In Nature's Casino", that appeared in The New York Times Magazine.^[9]

Lewis has worked for The Spectator,^[2]The New York Times Magazine, as a columnist for Bloomberg, as a senior editor and campaign correspondent to The New Republic,^[10] and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote the Dad Again column for Slate. Lewis worked for Conde Nast Portfolio but in February 2009 left to join Vanity Fair, where he became a contributing editor.^[11][12]

In September 2011, after the successful release of the film adaptation of his book Moneyball, it was reported that Lewis planned to take on "a much more active role in the what could be the next film based on one of his books" and would start writing a script for a Liar's Poker film.^[13][14]

In 2013, in Vanity Fair, Lewis wrote on the injustice of the prosecution of ex-Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov,^[15] who is given an entire chapter in Flash Boys.^[16]Flash Boys, which looked at high-frequency trading of Wall Street and other markets, was released in March 2014.^[17]

In 2018, Lewis wrote and narrated, The Coming Storm for Audible Studios, which released the short non-fiction story as part of their new Audible Originals series of audio books.^[18]

Reception

A best-selling author, Lewis has drawn both supporters and vocal detractors. In a review of Moneyball, Dan Ackman of Forbes said that Lewis had a special talent: "He can walk into an area already mined by hundreds of writers and find gems there all along but somehow missed by his predecessors".^[19] A New York Times piece said that "no one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis", praising his ability to use his subject's stories to show the problems with the systems around them.^[20]

Lewis has been criticized for writing a 2007 article in Bloomberg criticizing economists at the World Economic Forum for expressing views on how the world wasn't pricing risk appropriately.^[21]

Critics from outside the financial industry have also criticized Lewis for what they consider to be inaccuracies in his writing. In a 2011 column in The Atlantic, American journalist and sports author Allen Barra takes issue with Lewis' characterization of Major League Baseball in Lewis' book Moneyball (2003). Barra writes: "From a historical standpoint, Lewis is, well, way off base. By the end of the 20th century baseball had achieved a greater level of competitive balance than at any time in the game's history... Moneyball doesn't just get the state of present-day baseball wrong; it also misrepresents the history of the sport."^[22]

Lewis' Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt ignited a new round of controversy surrounding high-frequency trading. At a House Financial Services Committee hearing in April 2014, Mary Jo White, former Wall Street insider (as a Debevoise & Plimpton litigations lawyer primarily for Wall Street financial firms),^[23] who later served as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair, denied the theme of Lewis' book, stating: "The markets are not rigged."^[24] One month later, in June 2014, White announced that the SEC would undergo a new round of regulatory review in response to concerns about dark pools and market structure.^[25]

Lewis' The Undoing Project was widely praised by book critics,^[26] with Glenn C. Altschuler arguing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that it "may well be his best book."^[27]

Personal life

Lewis has been married three times. His first wife is Diane de Cordova Lewis;^[1] his second, the former CNBC correspondent Kate Bohner.^[28] His third is the former MTV reporter Tabitha Soren, whom he married on October 4, 1997; they have two daughters and one son, and reside in Berkeley, California.^[29][30] Lewis is an atheist.^[31]

Bibliography

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  Lewis, Michael (1989). Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02750-3..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
  


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  Lewis, Michael (1991). Pacific Rift. Knoxville, Tennessee: Whittle Direct Books. ISBN 0-9624745-6-8.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (1991). The Money Culture. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03037-7.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (1997). Trail Fever. New York: A. A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-44660-5.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (1999). The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04813-6.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2001). Next: The Future Just Happened. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02037-1.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2003). Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-05765-8.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2005). Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-06091-8.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2006). The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-06123-X.
  


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  Lewis, Michael, ed. (2008). The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics. New York: Sterling. ISBN 1-4027-4790-X.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2009). Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-06901-X.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2009). Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-06514-6.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2010). The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-07223-1.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2011). Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-08181-8.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2014). Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-24466-3.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2016). The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-25459-4.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2018). The Coming Storm (Audiobook ed.). Audible Studios.
  


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  Lewis, Michael (2018). The Fifth Risk. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-324-00264-2.
  

See also

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  2020 United States Census, issues addressed in The Fifth Risk
  

References

External links

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  Michael Lewis on Charlie Rose
  


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  Appearances on C-SPAN