Michael Lewis

American writer and journalist (born 1960)

For other people with the same name, see Michael Lewis (disambiguation).

Michael Lewis

Lewis in 2009

Born|  (1960-10-15) October 15, 1960 (age 64)
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation| Nonfiction writer, journalist
Alma mater| Princeton University (BA)
London School of Economics (MSc)
Period| 1989–present
Notable works|

* Liar's Poker (1989)
* Moneyball (2003)
* The Blind Side (2006)
* The Big Short (2010)

Spouse|

Diane de Cordova Lewis

(m. 1985)​

Kate Bohner

(m. 1994)​

Tabitha Soren

(m. 1997)​

Website
michaellewiswrites.com

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960)[1][2] is an American author and financial journalist.[3] He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.

Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University, from which he graduated with a degree in art history. After attending the London School of Economics, he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. The experience prompted him to write his first book, Liar's Poker (1989). Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), in which he investigated the success of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and their general manager Billy Beane. His 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game was his first to be adapted into a film, The Blind Side (2009). In 2010, he released The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The film adaptation of Moneyball was released in 2011, followed by The Big Short in 2015.

Lewis's books have won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and several have reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller list, including his most recent book, Going Infinite (2023).[4]

## Early life

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Lewis was born in New Orleans, the son of corporate attorney J. Thomas Lewis and community activist Diana Monroe Lewis.[5] He went to Isidore Newman School. He later attended Princeton University and graduated cum laude with a B.A. in art and archaeology in 1982 after completing a 166-page senior thesis titled "Donatello and the Antique."[6] At Princeton, Lewis was a member of the Ivy Club.[1] He briefly worked with New York City art dealer Daniel Wildenstein. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Lewis said that his initial ambition was to become an art historian, but he was quickly dissuaded once he realized that there would be no jobs available for art historians and that even the handful that existed did not pay well.[7]

Lewis subsequently enrolled at the London School of Economics and received an MSc(Econ) in economics in 1985.[8][9] He was hired by Salomon Brothers, stayed for a while in New York for its training program, and then relocated to London, where he worked at its London office as a bond salesman for a few years.[10] He has said that the journalism from this era found in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal inspired him to explore becoming a writer.[11]

## Career

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### Writing

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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 the obsession with innovation. Four years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball (2003), in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. In August 2007, he wrote an article about catastrophe bonds, "In Nature's Casino", that ran in The New York Times Magazine.[12]

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,[13] 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.[14][15]

In September 2011, after the successful release of the film adaptation of 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.[16][17]

During 2013 in Vanity Fair, Lewis wrote on the injustice of the prosecution of ex-Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov,[18] who is given an entire chapter in Flash Boys.[19] Flash Boys, which looked at high-frequency trading of Wall Street and other markets, was released in March 2014.[20]

Lewis's 2015 Vanity Fair article "How Tom Wolfe Became ... Tom Wolfe", about the journalist and writer Tom Wolfe, became the basis for the documentary film Radical Wolfe, directed by Richard Dewey and released in 2023.[21]

In 2016, Lewis published The Undoing Project, chronicling the close academic collaboration and personal relationship between Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. The duo found systemic errors in human judgment under uncertainty, with implications for models of decision-making in fields such as economics, medicine, and sports.

In 2017, Lewis wrote a series of articles for Vanity Fair in which he described the Trump administration's approach to various federal agencies, including the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture.[22] His articles described a sense of incredulity and disillusionment from career civil servants, particularly because of the Trump administration's lack of attention to some of their work, and the lack of care, knowledge, experience, and respect from Trump political appointees.[23]

That material was incorporated into Lewis's book The Fifth Risk, which was on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 14 weeks,[24] and described the disconnect between the Obama administration's well-prepared transition plans and the incoming Trump administration's apparent lack of concern. Along with Energy and Agriculture, this book added Commerce among the main departments described.

In 2018, Lewis wrote and narrated The Coming Storm for Audible Studios, which released the short nonfiction story as part of its new Audible Originals series of audiobooks.[25]

In 2023, he wrote Going Infinite, about the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, and what came to be the collapse of FTX.[26][27]

### Broadcasting and podcasts

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Lewis's podcast, Against the Rules, first aired on April 2, 2019.[28] The first season comprised seven episodes, each taking on a different aspect of society addressing the concept of fairness "in realms ranging from art authentication to consumer finance".[29][30] The show often refers to the growing social distrust for authority,[31] and refers to different types of public officials as "referees."[32] Against the Rules is produced by Pushkin Industries, the media company founded by journalist Malcolm Gladwell and former Slate executive Jacob Weisberg.

On January 12, 2020, Lewis appeared as one of the castaways on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[33]

## Reception

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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".[34] 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.[35]

Critics from outside the financial industry have criticized Lewis for what they consider inaccuracies in his writing. In a 2011 column in The Atlantic, American journalist and sports author Allen Barra took issue with Lewis's characterization of Major League Baseball in Moneyball, writing, "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."[36]

Lewis's 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, a former Wall Street insider (as a Debevoise & Plimpton lawyer primarily for Wall Street financial firms)[37] who later served as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair, denied the book's premise, saying, "The markets are not rigged".[38] 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.[39]

Book critics widely praised Lewis's The Undoing Project,[40] with Glenn C. Altschuler writing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that it "may well be his best book".[41]

His 2023 book Going Infinite, an intimate account of Sam Bankman-Fried and his firm FTX, was written while FTX was collapsing and published the day Bankman-Fried's trial on charges of fraud and money laundering began. Lewis was criticized for giving Bankman-Fried's explanations for FTX's losses excessive deference, with journalist Michael Hiltzik calling the Bankman-Fried hype a "torrent of nonsense". The New York Times wrote of Lewis's extensive access to Bankman-Fried that he had "a front-row seat—from which he could apparently see nothing."[42][43][44] Others praised Lewis's storytelling, with The New Yorker calling the book "stupefyingly pleasurable" to read and filling "many gaps" in the story, ultimately predicting that the book "may one day be regarded as either the pinnacle or the nadir of his career".[45]

## Personal life

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Lewis has been married three times. He married his first wife, Diane de Cordova Lewis, in 1985.[1] His second marriage was to former CNBC correspondent Kate Bohner; they got engaged three weeks after their first date.[46][47][48] In October 1997, he married former MTV reporter Tabitha Soren. Lewis and Soren had three children.[49][50]

In 2021, their second child, Dixie, was a passenger in a head-on collision with a semi truck near Truckee, California; the driver, her boyfriend, had inexplicably crossed the median. Both Dixie and her boyfriend were pronounced dead at the scene.[51]

Lewis and Soren live in the Oakland Hills above Berkeley, California.[52][53] Lewis, an atheist,[54] is a descendant of the early-19th-century Louisiana judge Joshua Lewis.[55]

## Awards and recognition

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* 2023 elected member to American Academy of Arts & Sciences[56]
* 2008 Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Magazines for "In Nature's Casino"[57]
* 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for Feature Writing for "The End"[58]
* 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Feature Writing for "Wall Street on the Tundra"[59]

## Bibliography

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* Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 1989. ISBN 0-393-02750-3.
* Pacific Rift. Knoxville, Tennessee: Whittle Direct Books. 1991. ISBN 0-9624745-6-8.
* The Money Culture. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. ISBN 0-393-03037-7. A collection of Lewis's journalism.
* Trail Fever. New York: A. A. Knopf. 1997. ISBN 0-679-44660-5.
* The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. ISBN 0-393-04813-6.
* Next: The Future Just Happened. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2001. ISBN 0-393-02037-1.
* Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. ISBN 0-393-05765-8.
* Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 0-393-06091-8.
* The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2006. ISBN 0-393-06123-X.
* Lewis, Michael, ed. (2008). The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics. New York: Sterling. ISBN 978-1-4027-4790-8.
* Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06901-3.
* Lewis, Michael, ed. (2009). Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06514-5.
* The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-07223-5.
* Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-08181-7.
* Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2014. ISBN 978-0-393-24466-3.
* The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2017. ISBN 978-0-393-25459-4.
* The Coming Storm (Audiobook ed.). Audible Studios. 2018.
* The Fifth Risk. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2018. ISBN 978-1-324-00264-2.
* Playing to Win. New York: Audible. 2020. ASIN B08DL7ZJDX.
* The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2021. ISBN 978-0393881554.
* Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2023. ISBN 978-1-324-07433-5.
* Lewis, Michael, ed. (2025). Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service. Penguin Group. ISBN 979-8217047802.

## See also

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* 2020 United States Census, issues addressed in The Fifth Risk

## References

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2. ^ a b "Michael Lewis". The Writers Directory (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Detroit: St. James Press. 2011. GALE|K1649564197. Retrieved March 4, 2012. Gale Biography In Context. (subscription required)
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4. ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers - Books - Oct. 22, 2023". The New York Times. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
5. ^ "The Amazing Life Of Wall Street's Favorite Writer, Michael Lewis". Business Insider. June 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
6. ^ Lewis, Michael M. (1982). Donatello and the Antique (Senior thesis). Princeton, NJ: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.
7. ^ Rose, Charlie. "Interview with Michael Lewis". www.charlierose.com. Charlie Rose. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
8. ^ "Michael Lewis". Greater Talent Network Speakers Bureau. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
9. ^ "Michael Lewis". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2011. GALE|H1000059769. Retrieved March 4, 2012 - via Fairfax County Public Library. Gale Biography In Context. (subscription required)
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11. ^ High, Peter. "Bestselling Author Michael Lewis Has It All Figured Out". Forbes. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
12. ^ Lewis, Michael (August 26, 2007). "In Nature's Casino". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
13. ^ "the future just happened". BBC. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
14. ^ John Koblin (October 7, 2008). "Graydon's Big Get: Raids Portfolio for Michael Lewis". Observer. Archived from the original on April 15, 2009.
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16. ^ Lewis, Andy; Matt Belloni (September 26, 2011). "'Moneyball' Author Michael Lewis to Script 'Liar's Poker' for Warner Bros. (Exclusive)". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
17. ^ Ross, Scott (May 30, 2012). "Michael Lewis' "Liar's Poker" Being Turned Into a Film by Requa & Ficarra". NBC Bay Area. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
18. ^ Lewis, Michael (September 2013). "Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?". Vanity Fair. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
19. ^ Azam Ahmed (March 18, 2011). "Former Goldman Programmer Gets 8-year Jail Term for Code Theft". NYTimes.com. Retrieved November 5, 2017. "A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer convicted of stealing source code from the firm was sentenced on Friday to more than eight years in prison, capping a case that had shone a rare spotlight on the world of lightning-fast computer-driven trading."
20. ^ "Flash Boys | W. W. Norton & Company". books.wwnorton.com. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
21. ^ "Review: In 'Radical Wolfe,' a New Journalism lion roars on page, while his life is quieter". Los Angeles Times. September 23, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
22. ^ Lewis, Michael (July 26, 2017). "Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
23. ^ "Michael Lewis: Many Trump Appointees Are Uninterested In The Agencies They Head Up". NPR. November 6, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
24. ^ [Blasdel, Alex, Lewis: The Big Short author on how Trump is gambling with nuclear disaster, The Guardian, September 22, 2018]
25. ^ Lewis, Michael (2018). The Coming Storm. Audible Studios.
26. ^ Yaffe-Bellany, David (October 3, 2023). "Takeaways From a New Book on Sam Bankman-Fried". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
27. ^ Lewis, Michael (October 3, 2023). Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-324-07433-5.
28. ^ "Against the Rules with Michael Lewis". Retrieved May 12, 2019.
29. ^ Larson, Sarah (July 9, 2019). "Three Podcasts to Listen to in July". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
30. ^ "On Against the Rules, Michael Lewis Delivers Yet Again". Podcast Review. May 14, 2019. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
31. ^ Eliana, Dockterman (June 24, 2019). "The 10 Best Podcasts of 2019 So Far". Time Magazine. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
32. ^ Turner, Richard (May 17, 2019). "Michael Lewis Makes Boring Stuff Interesting: The writer's new podcast 'Against the Rules' asks what has happened to fairness in the U.S." The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
33. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Michael Lewis, writer". January 12, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
34. ^ Ackman, Dan. "Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game". Forbes. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
35. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (March 14, 2010). "Investors Who Foresaw the Meltdown". The New York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
36. ^ Barra, Allen (July 13, 2014). "The Many Problems with 'Moneyball'". The New York Times. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
37. ^ "She Runs S.E.C. He's a Lawyer. Recusals and Headaches Ensue". The New York Times. February 23, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
38. ^ Lynch, Sarah H. (April 29, 2014). "SEC chair to Congress: 'The markets are not rigged'". Reuters. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
39. ^ Alden, William (June 5, 2014). "S.E.C. Chief Offers Rules to Govern Fast Trading". The New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
40. ^ "Bookmarks reviews of The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis". LitHub. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
41. ^ Altschuler, Glenn C. (January 15, 2017). "'The Undoing Project': How two Israeli psychologists changed the world". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
42. ^ Klein, Julia M. (October 3, 2023). "What you won't learn from Michael Lewis' book on FTX could fill another book". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
43. ^ Hiltzik, Michael (October 3, 2023). "Column: In Michael Lewis, Sam Bankman-Fried found his last and most willing victim". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
44. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (October 2, 2023). "Even Michael Lewis Can't Make a Hero Out of Sam Bankman-Fried". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
45. ^ Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (October 4, 2023). "Michael Lewis's Big Contrarian Bet". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
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* 2009: Michael Lewis

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(2015–2019)|

* 2015: Matt Black, Tom Philpott
* 2016: David Enrich
* 2017: Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel
* 2018: Tony Bartelme
* 2019: Rachel Abrams, Ellen Gabler, James B. Stewart

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* 2020: Jonathan Mahler, Jim Rutenberg
* 2021: Greg Jaffe
* 2022: Josh Dzieza
* 2023: Andy Greenberg

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(1958–1959)|

* 1958: Werner Renberg
* 1959: Ernest Havermann

(1960–1969)|

* 1960: John A. Conway
* 1961: Leonard S. Silk
* 1962: Richard Austin Smith
* 1962 (SA): John Chamberlain
* 1962 (SA): Daniel M. Friedenberg
* 1963: Sandford Brown
* 1963 (SA): Gilbert H. Clee
* 1963 (SA): Robert W. Murray, Jr.
* 1964: John Brooks
* 1964 (SA): John Maughan
* 1964 (SA): Max Ways
* 1965: Lee Silberman
* 1966: Charles E. Silberman
* 1967: Max Ways
* 1968: Michael Laurence
* 1969: John Brooks

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* 1970: John F. Lyons
* 1971: Chris Welles
* 1972: Kenneth Auchincloss
* 1973: Everett Mattlin
* 1974: Carol J. Loomis
* 1975: Marshall Loeb
* 1976: Gordon Williams
* 1977: Lawrence Minard, David Warsh
* 1978: Lewis Lapham
* 1978 (HM): William Tucker
* 1979: William Tucker
* 1979 (HM): Robert Heilbroner

(1980–1989)|

* 1980: Walter Guzzardi Jr.
* 1981: William Tucker
* 1982: L. J. Davis
* 1983: Joseph Nocera
* 1984: Andrew Tobias
* 1985 (tie): Richard L. Stern
* 1985 (tie): Howard Rudnitsky, Allan Sloan
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* 1987: William C. Symonds
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* 1989 (tie): Eric Schurenberg, Lani Luciano
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* 1990: Peter Brimelow, Leslie Spencer
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* 2000: Jeff Blyskal
* 2001: Gary Rivlin
* 2002: Nanette Byrnes, David Henry
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* 2004: Aaron Bernstein, Pete Engardio, Manjeet Kripalani
* 2005 (tie): Charles Fishman
* 2005 (tie): Clifton Leaf
* 2006: Carol Loomis
* 2007: Charles Fishman
* 2008 (tie): Michael Lewis
* 2008 (tie): Allan Sloan
* 2009: David Leonhardt

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* 2010: James Bandler
* 2011: Charles R. Babcock, Amanda Bennett
* 2012: Doris Burke, Peter Elkind, Jennifer Reingold
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* 2014: Cam Simpson

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