Michael Lewis (Author)

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Michael Lewis (2009)

Michael M. Lewis (born October 15, 1960 in New Orleans , Louisiana , United States ) is an American publicist and business journalist . His books deal primarily with questions of investment banking .

Career

Lewis attended Isidore Newman's prep school in New Orleans and then studied art history at Princeton University . After completing his BA in 1982, he first worked for the New York art dealer Daniel Wildenstein , but then enrolled at the London School of Economics , where he received an MA in economics in 1985.

Lewis then completed an apprenticeship in New York at the investment bank Salomon Brothers , for which he then worked in London for three years. He processed his experiences in 1989 in the book "Liar's Poker" (German: Wall Street Poker ), in which he dealt with the amorality and cynicism of the money business. The book became an international bestseller.

In 2010 Lewis published The Big Short: How a handful of traders gambled the world , a detailed report on the background to the real estate crisis of 2007, which led to the collapse of the major bank Lehman Brothers and the global economic crisis. In it, reckless German buyers of dangerous financial products from Wall Street banks were reviled by the much-cited actors with the expression "stupid Germans in Düsseldorf". The 2015 film The Big Short is based on Lewis' book.

Lewis' biographical account of football player Michael Oher is an integral part of his football analysis “The Blind Side” and was filmed in 2009 with Sandra Bullock , Kathy Bates and Tim McGraw . In 2011, the Oscar-nominated film The Art of Winning - Moneyball with Brad Pitt , Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman , based on Lewis' non-fiction book Moneyball (2003), was released.

In his book Flash Boys. A Wall Street Revolt. from 2014 he examined the high-frequency trading on US exchanges and uncovered that a small group of traders with special technical equipment have slipped between the exchanges and all other brokers . With their superior market access, they can gain a tiny advantage for each other traders' deal. The publication of the book and an excerpt in the New York Times in late March 2014 sparked debate over financial oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the FBI announced that they had been investigating related allegations for some time.

Michael Lewis now works as the business editor of the US magazine Vanity Fair .

Publications

Books

  • Wall Street Poker . 1989, ISBN 3-430-15985-7 (American English: Liar's Poker .).
  • Pacific Rift (1991)
  • Money frenzy . 1991, ISBN 3-430-15986-5 (Original title: The Money Culture .).
  • Trail Fever: Spin Doctors , Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, Grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House (1997)
  • Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House (1998)
  • The New New Thing. A Silicon Valley Story (2000)
  • Next: The Future Just Happened (2001)
  • Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game . WW Norton, New York City, USA 2003, ISBN 0-393-05765-8 .
  • Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life (2005)
  • The Blind Side: Evolution Of A Game (2006)
  • Panic. The Story Of Modern Financial Insanity (2008)
  • Home Game: An Accidental Guide To Fatherhood (2009)
  • The big short . How a handful of traders gambled the world away. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39357-5 (American English: The Big Short. Inside The Doomsday Machine .).
  • Boomerang . Europe's hard landing. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York City 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39471-8 (Original title: Boomerang. Travels in the New Third World. WW Norton & Co., New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-393 -08181-7 .).
  • Flash Boys. A Wall Street Revolt. WW Norton, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-24466-3 .
  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds. , 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-25459-4 .
    • German: From the world. Limits to choice or a friendship that has changed our thinking . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50686-9 .
  • The Fifth Risk . New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-324-00264-2 .

Journal articles (selection)

Film adaptations

The following films are based on books by Lewis:

Web links

Commons : Michael Lewis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Michael Lewis  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Heise: The Myth of the Stupid German Investor . Article from September 25, 2014 in the online.wsj.com portal , accessed on October 2, 2014
  2. ↑ Welt online: Brad Pitt with sports drama in the Oscar race , February 1, 2012
  3. ↑ Alexandra Kusitzky: ECONOMY: The end of Wall Street. In: Focus Online . September 8, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Mosaik des Wahnsinns - Review by Uwe Jean Heuser in Die Zeit No. 21 from May 20, 2010
  5. ↑ Simon Schmid: The author who divided Wall Street. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch / Newsnet from April 3, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewis, Michael M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist and business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana , United States