American author — author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, Flash Boys, and The Undoing Project — the most commercially successful business and finance narrative nonfiction writer of his generation.
Creates the character-driven financial narrative — Lewis's method (finding the most interesting person in the center of a complex financial phenomenon and using their story to explain the phenomenon) made Wall Street, sabermetrics, the financial crisis, and behavioral economics legible to non-specialist audiences.
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