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Michael Monroe Lewis is an American financial journalist and non-fiction author. His best-selling books are The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010), Flash Boys (2014), Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (2011), and Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (2009). The others are The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006), Panic (2008), Liar's Poker (1989), Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003) and The New New Thing (2000). He also became a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009.
Lewis is a best-selling author who drew both vocal detractors and supporters. Dan Ackman of Forbes said that Lewis has a unique talent. He can mine in an area that hundreds of writers already visited and still find gems that his predecessors missed. According to the New York Times, no other person can write a narrative panache about finance and money like Mr. Lewis. They praised his ability to use the stories of his subjects so he can show the problems and the systems around them.
Lewis underwent marriage three times. He was married to former CNBC correspondent Kate Bohner and Diane de Cordova Lewis. He is now married to Tabitha Soren, a former MTV reporter. The two now has one son and two daughters. They currently live in Berkeley, California.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
Asset |
Current value of Michael Lewis' website michaellewiswrites.com |
$8,600 |
|
2014 |
Royalties |
Estimated earnings from Flash Boys (around 500 thousand copies sold) |
$50,000 |
|
2010 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the book Moneyball (approximately 29 thousand copies sold) |
$462,550 |
|
2010 |
Book Sales |
Sales of the book The Blind Side (approximately 315 thousand copies sold) |
$5,020,000 |
|
2010 |
Royalties |
Estimated earnings from The Big Short (almost 700 thousand copies sold) |
$70,000 |
|
2006 |
Royalties |
Estimated earnings from The Blind Side (around 1 million copies sold) |
$100,000 |
|
2003 |
Royalties |
Estimated earnings from Moneyball (1 million copies sold) |
$100,000 |
|
1988 |
Bonus |
Bonus as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers |
$160,000 |
|
1988 |
Salary |
Salary as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers |
$60,000 |