Michael Lewis was born on October 15, 1960 in New Orleans, in
Louisiana, to corporate
lawyer, J. Thomas Lewis and community activist, Diana Monroe Lewis. He attended
the college preparatory Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. He then joined
Princeton University where he received a B.A.( cum laude). He was a member of
the Ivy club. He worked with New York art dealer Daniel Wildenstein. He, later,
obtained his M.A. degree in Economics in 1985. He is a non-fiction writer and a
financial journalist.
He got educated at London School of Economics. Lewis was married
to Diane de Cordov Lewis and then to former CNBC correspondent Kate Bohner,
Later, he got married to the former MTV reporter Tabitha Sorenon on October 4,
1997. He and Soren have two daughters and one son Quinn Tallulah, Coxoe Lee,
and Walker Jack. They reside in Berkeley, California.
His notable and best selling works are Liar’s Poker(1989),
The New Thing(2000) Moneyball; The Art of Winning an Unfair Game(2003), The
Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006), Panic (2008), Home Game: An Accidental
Guide to Fatherhood (2009), The Big Short: Inside: Inside the Doomsday Machine
(2010), Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (2011) and Flash
boys(2014). He has also been an editor to Vanity Fair since 2009. In 201`4, his
book Flash Boysm which looked at the high-frequency trading sector of Wall
Street was released.
In his book, Flash boys' Mr. Michael
Lewis has highlighted his meticulous observation how electronic trading
has rigged the market against ordinary investors, particularly in America.
Michael feels that whatever is happening in America is going to have its impact
in Asia and Europe too.Lewis did highlight the issue of predatory High
Frequency Trading activity. He calls this a major problem. Four years after The
Big Short, his best seller, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to focus on
focus on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.
The book, Flash Boys, is a Wall Street
revolt. It is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the
U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that , post
-financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more
controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come
to the realization separately, but after they discover one another, the flash
boys band together and set out to reform thefinancial markets. They do this by
creating an exchange in which high frequency trading -source of the most
intractable problems- will have no advantage.
According to Huffington Post, Michael
Lewis is one of the premier chroniclers of our age.
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