Michael Lewis
Journalist & Best-Selling Author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball and The Blind Side
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A shrewd observer of politics, finance and the American scene, Michael Lewis combines keen insight with his signature wit, making him one of today’s leading social commentators. A renowned best-selling author, Lewis is also a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Slate and Bloomberg.
Lewis' latest book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (May 2009), is a compilation of stories he wrote for his column "Dad Again" in Slate, detailing the parenting realities thrust upon him—not always happily, but often hilariously—by the births of his three children. It's a personal and honest account of initially feeling scant affection or love for his children and pokes fun at the modern American pact where fathers share child-rearing duties.
Lewis’ Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity (December 2008) chronicles five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history, from the crash of ‘87 to the current sub-prime mortgage disaster. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Lewis explores the mood and market conditions leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts of what people thought was happening, then analyzes what actually happened - and what we should have learned.
Lewis first made a name for himself in 1989 with the chart-topping Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street, an inside look at his career as a bond trader that best-selling author Tom Wolfe called “the funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read,” and earned Lewis the label of “America’s poet laureate of capital” from The Los Angeles Times. Liar’s Poker spent 62 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and remains one of the signature books of the 1980s.
Lewis traversed the 1980s’ get-rich-quick jungle with The Money Culture (1992); chronicled the 1996 presidential campaign in Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House; crafted a 20-week New York Times best-seller in 2001 with The New, New Thing (“The book that does for Silicon Valley what Liar’s Poker did for Wall Street.”); explored the internet boom in Next: The Future Just Happened (2002) and took his second dive into the world of professional sports with The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006) which delves into the substructure of football.
Lewis’ 2003 release Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of a Major League Baseball franchise. This New York Times best-seller details the effect that an innovative personnel approach has had in allowing the small-budget Oakland Athletics to consistently rank among baseball’s best.
A native of New Orleans, Michael Lewis graduated from Princeton University with a degree in art history and earned a master’s at The London School of Economics. Prior to his career as an author, he worked with The Salomon Brothers on Wall Street and in London. He lives in Berkeley with his wife Tabitha Soren and their three children.
At the podium, Lewis examines the era that was just brought to a crashing halt by the subprime and worldwide credit crisis. Starting with the years he chronicled in Liar’s Poker, he touches on the major economic events of the last twenty years, exploring what this period was all about, how it began and how it’s likely to end. He masterfully transforms complex issues into accessible scenarios through clever and amusing observations and continues to call it as he sees it in recounting Wall Street’s excesses.
In a separate program, Lewis takes audiences into the world of Moneyball. It is the story of how the Oakland A’s, the baseball team with the lowest budget in the league, consistently makes it into the playoff’s every year. Yet it is an exploration of the nature of talent, the assumptions people hold and how they get in the way of success, and how to identify talent and maintain and edge in a competitive field.
Interested in booking Michael Lewis to speak at your next event?
Lewis' latest book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (May 2009), is a compilation of stories he wrote for his column "Dad Again" in Slate, detailing the parenting realities thrust upon him—not always happily, but often hilariously—by the births of his three children. It's a personal and honest account of initially feeling scant affection or love for his children and pokes fun at the modern American pact where fathers share child-rearing duties.
Lewis’ Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity (December 2008) chronicles five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history, from the crash of ‘87 to the current sub-prime mortgage disaster. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Lewis explores the mood and market conditions leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts of what people thought was happening, then analyzes what actually happened - and what we should have learned.
Lewis first made a name for himself in 1989 with the chart-topping Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street, an inside look at his career as a bond trader that best-selling author Tom Wolfe called “the funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read,” and earned Lewis the label of “America’s poet laureate of capital” from The Los Angeles Times. Liar’s Poker spent 62 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and remains one of the signature books of the 1980s.
Lewis traversed the 1980s’ get-rich-quick jungle with The Money Culture (1992); chronicled the 1996 presidential campaign in Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House; crafted a 20-week New York Times best-seller in 2001 with The New, New Thing (“The book that does for Silicon Valley what Liar’s Poker did for Wall Street.”); explored the internet boom in Next: The Future Just Happened (2002) and took his second dive into the world of professional sports with The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006) which delves into the substructure of football.
Lewis’ 2003 release Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of a Major League Baseball franchise. This New York Times best-seller details the effect that an innovative personnel approach has had in allowing the small-budget Oakland Athletics to consistently rank among baseball’s best.
A native of New Orleans, Michael Lewis graduated from Princeton University with a degree in art history and earned a master’s at The London School of Economics. Prior to his career as an author, he worked with The Salomon Brothers on Wall Street and in London. He lives in Berkeley with his wife Tabitha Soren and their three children.
At the podium, Lewis examines the era that was just brought to a crashing halt by the subprime and worldwide credit crisis. Starting with the years he chronicled in Liar’s Poker, he touches on the major economic events of the last twenty years, exploring what this period was all about, how it began and how it’s likely to end. He masterfully transforms complex issues into accessible scenarios through clever and amusing observations and continues to call it as he sees it in recounting Wall Street’s excesses.
In a separate program, Lewis takes audiences into the world of Moneyball. It is the story of how the Oakland A’s, the baseball team with the lowest budget in the league, consistently makes it into the playoff’s every year. Yet it is an exploration of the nature of talent, the assumptions people hold and how they get in the way of success, and how to identify talent and maintain and edge in a competitive field.
Interested in booking Michael Lewis to speak at your next event?
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