William D. Cohan
Business writer and former investment banker
William D. Cohan is an American business writer and former Wall Street investment banker. He has written several New York Times bestsellers about finance.
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American Born 1960 in Worcester, United States
About William D. Cohan
Cohan was born in 1960 and spent 17 years working on Wall Street, at Lazard Frères, Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, before turning to journalism. He studied at Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. His book The Last Tycoons, about Lazard Frères, won the Business Book of the Year prize from the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs in 2007. House of Cards covers the last days of Bear Stearns. Money and Power looks at Goldman Sachs. The Price of Silence is about the Duke lacrosse case. He has also been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.