19 Facts About Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics.

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Michael Lewis is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.

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Fourteen years later, Michael Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics.

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Michael Lewis's books have won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and been notable selection features on the New York Times Bestsellers Lists.

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Michael Lewis briefly worked with New York City art dealer Daniel Wildenstein.

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Michael Lewis subsequently enrolled at the London School of Economics and received an MA in economics in 1985.

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Michael Lewis 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.

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Michael Lewis has said that the journalism from this era found in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal inspired him to explore becoming a writer.

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Michael Lewis described his experiences at Salomon and the evolution of the mortgage-backed bond in Liar's Poker.

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Four years later, Michael Lewis wrote Moneyball, in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics.

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Michael Lewis has worked for The Spectator, The New York Times Magazine, as a columnist for Bloomberg, as a senior editor and campaign correspondent to The New Republic, and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Michael Lewis worked for Conde Nast Portfolio, but in February 2009 left to join Vanity Fair, where he became a contributing editor.

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In September 2011, after the successful release of the film adaptation of Moneyball, it was reported that Michael 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.

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In 2016, Michael Lewis published The Undoing Project, chronicling the close academic collaboration and personal relationship between Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.

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In 2017, Michael 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.

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Michael Lewis's 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.

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In 2018, Michael 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.

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

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Michael Lewis married his first wife, Diane de Cordova Lewis, in 1985.