Lewis is a columnist for Bloomberg News and a contributing writer to Vanity Fair. His other works include The New New Thing, about Silicon Valley during the Internet boom Coach, about the transformative powers of his own high school baseball coach Losers, about the 1996 Presidential campaign and Liar’s Poker, a Wall Street story based in part on his own experience working as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers. Both of his books about sports became movies, nominated for Academy Awards. Before that he wrote Moneyball, a book ostensibly about baseball but also about the way markets value people. The Blind Side, published in 2006, tells the story of Michael Oher, a poor, illiterate African-American kid living on the streets of Memphis whose life is transformed after he is adopted by white Evangelical Christians. His most recent works are Flash Boys, The Big Short, and Boomerang, narratives set in the global financial crisis. Michael Lewis has published many books on various subjects, all but one of them New York Times best sellers.
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