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Michael Monroe Lewis was born on October 15, 1960 in New Orleans, Lousiana, and he is an American financial journalist, and non-fiction author. His parents were the corporate lawyer J. Thomas Lewis, and the community activist Diana Monroe Lewis. Michael attended the “Isidore Newman School” in New Orleans, and he completed his studied at the “Princeton University”, where, in 1982, he received a Bachelor of Arts “cum laude” in art history. During his staying at Princeton, Michael has been a member of the “Ivy Club”, an aristocratic, prestigious eating club. Michael started to work for a short while with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wildenstein">art dealer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wildenstein">Daniel Wildenstein</a>, that operated mainly in New York, but he quickly realized that the jobs available for his degree were very few, and they didn’t pay that much as well. So he decided to keep studying, and he enrolled at the “London School of Economics”, where he received in 1985 a Master of Arts in economics. 
 
Michael started to work at Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street investment bank, and after an initial period in which he got trained in New York, he lately relocated to London, where he worked as a bond salesman at the Salomon’s office. At some point he understood that this wasn’t the path for him, so he resigned to dedicate all his time to the writing of a book, that will be published in 1989 with the title “Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street”, and that, based on his experience at Salomon, analyzed the evolution of the mortgage-backed bond. Michael also became a financial journalist. 
 
In his bibliography there are the books “Pacific Rift: Why Americans and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language">Japanese</a> Don't Understand Each Other” (1991), “The Money Culture” (1991), “Trail Fever” (1997), “The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story” (1999, in which Michael investigated the Silicon Valley during the Internet bloom), “Next: The Future Just Happened” (2001), “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” (2003, a book about the baseball, but also about the way the market values people), “Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life “ (2005, a book in which he analyzes the transformative power of his’ high school baseball coach), “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” (2006, a book about the story of the poor, illiterate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African-American</a> <a href="/biography/michael-oher">Michael Oher</a>, who, as a kid, he used to live on the streets of Memphis, and whose life was transformed after he’s been adopted by white Evangelical Christians), “Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity” (2009), “Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood” (2009, a book dedicate on his journey as a father), “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” (2010), “Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World” (2011, a narrative book set in the global financial crisis), “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” (2014, even this one is a narrative book set in the global financial crisis), and “The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds” (2016, a book about the work of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman">Daniel Kahneman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky">Amos Tversky</a>, the inventors of the behavioral economics).

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In a recent interview to NPR about Michael’s last book, he analyzed the result of the presidential election of 2016, saying “I filtered the election through Danny and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky">Amos</a>. They did these wonderful unfinished studies about how the human imagination worked. They called it "The Undoing Project." And they studied, briefly, how people undid tragedy. So after the election, people who found the result tragic were obeying some of the rules of the imagination that Danny and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky">Amos</a> described: focusing on the FBI director, for example, at the end. Danny and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky">Amos</a> had pointed out that when people endure a tragedy and they try to undo it in their minds so that they get to some alternative reality where it didn't happen, they start at the end and they undo the last thing that happened. So they undo the field goal kicker missing the field goal, and they undo the grounder going through the legs of the first baseman in the ninth inning. ... Whereas, you know, you can think of a thousand different things that could have happened — and that were more probable [than the actions of FBI <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">Director</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey">James Comey</a>] — that could have ended with Trump not being president.” 
 
Michael works as a columnist for “Bloomberg View”, and he is a contributor for the magazine “Vanity Fair”. Many of his articles have been published in “The New Your Times Magazine”, “The New Yorker”, “Gourmet”, “Slate”, “Sports Illustrated”, “Foreign Affairs”, and “Poetry Magazine”. In his past work experiences there are the one as a senior editor and campaign correspondent for “The New Republic”, and as a columnist for the British weekly magazine “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator">The Spectator</a>”.  Michael has also filmed and narrated short pieces for ABC-TV’s “Nightline”, je created and presented a documentary, divided in four parts, analyzing the social consequences of the internet for the British Broadcasting Corporation, and he recorded a few stories for the American public radio show “This American Life”.

Michael has been married three times, to Diane de Cordova Lewis, to former CNBC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bohner">correspondent</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bohner">Kate Bohner</a>, and with the former MTV <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabitha_Soren">reporter</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabitha_Soren">Tabitha Soren</a>. He actually lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife Tabitha and their three children: Quinn, Dixie and Walker. 
 
Michael has a Facebook page with about 110k followers, but he’s not very active, being the majority of his posts spaced over time, and mostly about his work and his books. He also has a Twitter account, but he barely used it. His net worth has been calculated in about $15 Million.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Brothers

http://michaellewiswrites.com/

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/06/504577235/are-you-of-two-minds-michael-lewis-new-book-explores-how-we-make-decisions

https://www.quora.com/Is-Michael-Lewis-author-of-Moneyball-and-The-Big-Short-on-Facebook-or-Twitter

https://marriedbiography.com/michael-lewis-biography/

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