Michael Lewis
Financial journalist and author
American financial journalist and author who moved from Wall Street bond sales to writing bestselling nonfiction such as Moneyball and Flash Boys.
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American Born 1960 in New Orleans, United States
About Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans in 1960 and studied art history at Princeton University. After attending the London School of Economics, he worked as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s. That job led to his first book, Liar's Poker, published in 1989. Moneyball (2003) looks at the Oakland Athletics and their general manager Billy Beane, and it was made into a film in 2011. The Blind Side and The Big Short were also adapted for the screen. He has also written Flash Boys, The Undoing Project and Going Infinite (2023). His books have earned two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, and several of them have been number one on the New York Times bestseller list. From 2009 to 2026 he was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he mostly covered business, finance and economics.