Alice Schroeder
Author and former insurance analyst
Alice Schroeder is a former Morgan Stanley insurance analyst who became Warren Buffett's appointed biographer.
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American Born 1956 in Dallas, United States
About Alice Schroeder
Schroeder was born in Texas and studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her undergraduate degree and an MBA. She began as a certified public accountant (CPA) at Ernst & Young before moving to Morgan Stanley as a managing director. She followed Berkshire Hathaway as an insurance analyst and first met Warren Buffett in 1998. In 2001 Buffett began encouraging her to leave stock analysis and write full time. The result was The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, published in October 2008 and a New York Times bestseller. Time magazine named it one of the ten best books of 2008. Since 2008 she has written as a columnist for Bloomberg News. Her board work has included a seat at Prudential PLC, where she was a non-executive director.